He began to resent the unfeeling questions with which his cousin was plying him.
"If you have come over here to live on pa, I don't think he will like it."
"I don't want to live on anyone," said Scott, his cheek flushing with anger. "I am ready to earn my own living."
"That's the way pa did. He came over here a poor boy, or rather a poor young man."
"I respect him the more for it."
"All the same I would rather begin life with a little money," said Loammi.
"I have a little money," rejoined Scott, with a half smile.
"How much?"
"I would rather wait and tell your father my circumstances."
"Oh, well, if you don't like to tell. Pa'll tell me all about it."