The meeting over, Morris and Jack dined with MacFarlane and again
the distinguished architect won Ruth's heart by the charm of his
personality, she telling Jack the next day that he was the only
OLD MAN--fifty was old for Ruth--she had ever seen with whom she
could have fallen in love, and that she was not sure after all but
that Jack was too young for her, at which there was a great
scrimmage and a blind-man's-buff chase around the table, up the
front stairs and into the corner by the window, where she was
finally caught, smothered in kisses and made to correct her
arithmetic.
This ghost of damages having been laid--it was buried the week
after Jack had called on his uncle--the Chief, the First
Assistant, and Bangs, the head foreman, disappeared from
Corklesville and reappeared at Morfordsburg.
The Chief came to select a site for the entrance of the shaft; the
First Assistant came to compare certain maps and documents, which
he had taken from the trunk he had brought with him from his
Maryland home, with the archives resting in the queer old
courthouse; while Foreman Bangs was to help with the level and
target, should a survey be found necessary.
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