"I suppose you are getting rich."
"Not so fast as I should like. Expenses are very large. How would you like to run a store like this, Cousin Seth?" he added, in a complaisant tone.
"Not very well. I might like to own it, but I don't think dry goods are in my line."
"I fancy not," said Ezra, in a tone of calm superiority. "It takes some business ability to run a large store."
"No doubt you have the necessary ability," observed Seth, with a smile.
"Well, I manage to do it."
"I hope Scott will be as successful as you have been."
"It isn't every one who works in a dry-goods store who rises beyond a salesman," returned Ezra Little, with a cold glance at Scott.
As the proprietor of the store passed on to his office, Seth Lawton said: "Have you been out to lunch, Scott?"
"Yes, Cousin Seth."