“This time, William, the surprise is mine.”
CHAPTER VII
IRON CUTS IRON
About the middle of the next forenoon, as Billy was going through the gate, Thomas Murphy leaned forward confidentially, and said:
“William, that key was in that door when I went to lock it last night.”
“Yes,” said Billy, hurrying on, “I saw it there when I went home.”
Billy didn’t care to discuss the matter.
The truth was that he thought it very strange that Mr. Prescott should have put the key right back in the lock. Business seemed to him to have some queer places in it.
But it had pleasant places, too, for, when Billy came back, he met Mr. Prescott, just starting on his trip around the mill.