"That's my present intention."
"It's mine, too," said Elisha.
"Humph! Expectin' to live at the Homestead?"
Elisha nodded.
"So'm I," grinned Eleazer.
"Hope you'll invite me over, now and then," Elisha drawled sarcastically.
"Hope you'll do the same," came from Eleazer.
For an interval they rode on in uncomfortable silence.
"Them boats is pretty heavy loaded," Eleazer presently volunteered, gazing off towards the horizon where a string of dull red coal barges trailed along in the wake of a blackened tug.