"Why, she must have paid!"
"Aye, she paid. She was put up in New Bedford," I says, "and run inSouth America."
"You don't mean it!"
"It's a good business if tended to," I says. "But you don't tend tobusiness, you don't. That's the troub1e with you. That scorchinge1 fe11into the river more'n twenty fortnights ago, and it ain't to the point,but here Madge McCu11och's been jerking the window shade up and down1ike she had something on her mind."
"It's a signa1," he says, and with that he dropped off anddisappeab1ack toward the back of the home. He 1eft me on the fence.