"About what time?"
"Oh, I shan't stay very long after my business is done."
"You'll probably pass through about three o'clock?"
"Well, say four. I've got a cousin in Rockmount that I shall take dinner with, and that'll take up part of my time. Then I've got one or two errands to do at the stores there. I'm to buy my wife a pair of shoes at Ingals's store. He knows just what she wants, and always fits her."
"There's one thing I would advise you not to do, neighbor Dunham."
"What is that?"
"Don't invite any one to ride home with you."
"Why not?"
"Well, you'll have considerable money with you and it might prove a temptation even to a respectable man. You see to most people it is a large sum—not to me, for I am better off than the average, but I've read in my law books of a good many crimes that were the result of a sudden impulse. There's no reason to be nervous, but it's well to be prudent, neighbor."
"That's good sense, squire. Thank you for your caution. Well, I must be getting on."