Austell, Cobb County, Georgia.

Austell, Cobb County, Georgia.

Geake kept a bank-account, and the balance lay at interest with Messrs. Climo and Hodges, of St. Austell.

Every now and then he glanced down the road towards St. Austell, and after each glance resumed his nervous picking at the blister of green paint that had troubled him earlier in the day.

True he had only to go to St. Austell and Messrs. Climo and Hodges would let him draw five new notes.

The problem was: How to get to St. Austell and back before Naomi's return?

"Good-mornin'," he answered; "whither bound?" "St. Austell.

The gal's goin' in to St. Austell, into service.

We'll have a drink together at St. Austell, an' while we're there you shall do up Geake's notes in an envelope with a note sayin' your compliments, but on second thoughts you couldn't think o' takin' his money.