He was a live man and a brisk talker, and had two journeymen and three apprentices, and was doing a raging business.

In fact, he was getting rich, hand over fist, and was vastly respected.

Marco was very proud of having such a man for a friend.

He had taken me there ostensibly to let me see the big establishment which bought so much of his charcoal, but really to let me see what easy and almost familiar terms he was on with this great man.

Dowley and I fraternized at once; I had had just such picked men, splendid fellows, under me in the Colt Arms Factory.