"Trains in my day were doing
well when they made twenty-five miles an hour. I shouldn't mind your
racing with one of those."
"I'm racing with one of the fastest engines ever built when I set up a
store in Eastman and try to appropriate some of your methods. I wonder
what you'll think of it?" said Richard gayly. "Well, here's the bad
stretch. Sit tight, grandfather. I'll pick out the best footing there
is, but we may jolt about a good bit. I'm going to try what can be done
to get these fellows to put a bottom under their spring mud!"
When the town was reached Richard convoyed his companion straight to the
best hotel, saw that he had a comfortable chair and as appetizing a meal
as the house could afford, and let him rest for as long a time afterward
as he himself could brook waiting. When Mr. Kendrick professed himself
in trim for whatever might come next Richard set out with him for the
short walk to the store of Benson & Company.
The young man's heart was beating with surprising rapidity as the two
approached the front of the brick building which represented his present
venture into the business world. He knew just how keen an eye was to
inspect the place, and what thorough knowledge was to pass judgment upon
it.
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