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Beechnut goes to see Mr. Linn. Benny.

 

management of the business, thenceforth, devolved on
the surviving partner.

While the boys were holding the conversation above
described, Rodolphus finished tying up the bags, and then
as that was all that he had to do that night, he went
around with Beechnut to see that the gates were all shut
securely. When this was done, he was ready to leave the
mill. The two boys had got to the door just at the time
when Beechnut made his proposal to go and speak to Ro-
dolphus’s uncle.

«Where is your uncle ?” said Beechnut.

“He has gone home,” said Rodolphus.

Mr. Linn, Rodolphus’s uncle, lived in a small white
house at a short distance,—only a few steps, in fact, from
the mill. So Beechnut requested Rodolphus to remain
where he was a moment, while he went to the door of the
house to see Mr. Linn.

Rodolphus accordingly remained where he was, while
Beechnut went to the door of the house. He knocked at
the door, and then turning round, looked back at Rodol-
phus and smiled. In a moment, a little child came to the
door.

“There comes Benny,” said Rodolphus, to himself.

Rodolphus could see that Beechnut held a brief con-
versation with Benny, and that then Benny went back
into the house again. A moment afterward, Mr. Linn
himself came to the door.

Becchnut and Mr. Linn seemed to be talking a few
minutes together at the door, and then, suddenly, Mr.
Linn called out,

“ Rodolphus! ”