Kendrick? He ought to be all right, if
there's anything in family connections."
Heman Daniels answered the question. He spoke with authority.
"Mr. Holliday is a fine gentleman," he announced, emphatically. "I've
seen him two or three times since he came. He's a millionaire, but it
doesn't make him pompous or stand-offish. He and I spoke--er--conversed
together as friendly and easy as if we had known each other all our
lives. He is very much interested in East Wellmouth. He tells me that,
if the place keeps on suiting him as it has so far, he intends making
it his permanent home. Of course he won't stay here ALL the year--the
family have a house in Florida and one in New York, I believe--but he
will call East Wellmouth his real home and his interests will center
here."
There was a general expression of satisfaction. Miss Timpson declared
that it was "real lovely" of Mr. Holliday Kendrick. Caleb Hammond
announced that he always cal'lated there was a boom coming for the town.
Had said so more times than he could count. "Folks'll tell you I said
it, too," he proclaimed stoutly. "They'll bear me out in it, if you ask
'em."
"I'm glad we're goin' to have such nice neighbors," said Thankful. "It's
always worried me a little wonderin' who that Colfax place might be sold
to. I didn't know but somebody might get it with the notion of startin'
another hotel."
"Hannah Parker ain't opened her mouth to talk of anything else since
I got back," said Captain Bangs.
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