“I mean the idea struck me,” he declared. “Dear me, how odd that it didn't do so before. Yes, he is exactly the right person. Exactly. Oh, dear me, this is VERY good!”
Martha said afterward that she never in her life felt more like shaking a person.
“What do you mean?” she demanded. “What was it that struck you?”
“Why, Cousin Gussie,” announced Galusha, happily. “Don't you see? He will be EXACTLY the one.”
CHAPTER X
When, at last—and it took some time—Martha Phipps was actually convinced that her lodger's “Cousin Gussie” was no less a person than the senior partner of the famous banking firm of Cabot, Bancroft and Cabot, she was almost as excited as he.
“Cabot, Bancroft and Cabot,” she repeated. “Why, everybody knows about them! They are the biggest bankers in New England. I have heard father say so ever so many times. And this Mr. Cabot, is he really your cousin?”
Galusha nodded. “Oh, yes,” he said. “He is my cousin—really he is. I have always called him Cousin Gussie; that is,” he added, “except when I worked for him, of course. Then he didn't like to have me.”
“Worked for him?”