“Why will he be disappointed?”
“Because he told dad I was a fool to come out here. He said I’d be back in rags before a year was out. Now, the old man thinks a good deal of his opinion, and he won’t like it to find how badly he’s mistaken.”
“Then he would prefer to see you come home in rags?”
“You bet he would.”
“How about Susan? Ain’t you afraid she has married the store clerk?”
Joshua looked grave for a moment.
“I won’t say but she has,” said he; “but if she has gone and forgotten about me jest because my back is turned, she ain’t the gal I take her for, and I won’t fret my gizzard about her.”
“She will feel worse than you when she finds you have come back with money.”
“That’s so.”
“And you will easily find some one else,” suggested Joe.