"I don't know but Lucas would as lieve go as not," the old gentleman remarked on coming back from this sharpening process, "and I can make out to spare him, I guess. You calculate to keep him, I s'pose?"
"Until this press is over; and perhaps longer, if I find he can do what I want."
"You'll find him pretty handy at a'most anything, but I mean
I s'pose he'll get his victuals with you?"
"I have made no arrangement of the kind," said Mr. Rossitur, controlling with some effort his rebelling muscles. "Donohan is boarded somewhere else, and for the present it will be best for all in my employ to follow the same plan."
"Very good," said uncle Joshua; "it makes no difference only, of course, in that case it is worth more, when a man has to find himself and his team."
"Whatever it is worth, I am quite ready to pay, Sir."
"Very good. You and Lucas can agree about that. He'll be along in the morning."
So they parted; and Fleda understood the impatient quick step with which her uncle got over the ground.
"Is that man a brother of your grandfather?"
"No, Sir Oh no! only his brother-in-law. My grandmother was his sister, but they weren't in the least like each other."