Show THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS d dBY r D 1 BY GEORGE DOUGLASS D I I Copyright r K McClure I o Phillips P Co o CHAPTER X X Continued nut Cut lips were working In the throes of or commercial speculation and h he stared heedless of ot the Jibe So Johnny Coe took toole U up his sapient para para- ble bleAt At veel At cel said he ho theres a chance Mr 11 Brodlo Brodie That road round to the a 3 handy thing You could taJ take e eA a h hOrse and cart brawly through nn on opening like that thaL And there's theres a n. ge Key gey ground at t t. t the ba back k too when a l. boll body comes to think ot What lines line's he going to queried Brodle BrodIe whoso mind quickened h 1 by the chance he MW aw at No o. o 1 The Crose was hot on the hunt of or Its Us pos pos- Hes very close about that said the Provost I asked Johnny GIbson Gibron It It wn wa was him lim had h the ot but ot but ho ht couldn't give ghe me any my All An h he could say sayas ay was as that Wilson lIson h hid had tI bought It anti ami paid it But Din losh said sald I I. I h he maim maun a lat peep what he wanted the thc place for But nu an It sc seems e ma ms maho he ho was wes owr farrant auld for the like of at that Well We'll clI let the thu folk wonder for fora or a n. while Mr Ir Gibson he had said The Tho Ico less we tell them the keener they'll bo hp boto 1 to ken and they'll advertise me for h hy by one another what im i'm Im I'm un till Cunning said Brodle odle breathing the word loW v In expressive Admiration cute CUt said Sam Sandy Toddle Very raid the Deacon But nut the place has been falling down domi since ever I have mind ot paid Sand Sandy Toddle He Hes s a very clever er man If Ir he makes anything out of DC that Well Vell well veIl said the Provost well wen soon see ee what lies he's meaning to to be at Now z that thoat his furniture Is In In he surel surely canna keep us In iii the dark much loaner loan bang er or Their curiosity was poon poon oon appeased Within a week seek the they were privileged to read the notice here appended Mr James Wilson begs to announce to the tho Inhabitants of Barbie and surrounding surrounding sur stIr rounding neighborhood that he has ta taI taken taken ta- ta I ken en these commodious premises premise No o 1 The Cross which he hc Intends to open shortly a as a n. Grocery Ironmongery and General Provision Store J. J W. W Is apprised apprised ap ap- ap- ap that such an Emporium has long been a felt want ant In the locality To meet this want vant Is la J. J Ws W.'s Intention He lie will wiil try to do this not by making larg large profits on a small business but buthy buthy hy by taking taking- small profits on a large busi busl- ness Indeed owl owing Ill to his long acquaintance acquaintance ac ac- ac- ac with th tIle tho trade Mr 11 Wilson lIson will be able ablo to supply nil all commodities a at t a very little over cost price For J J. W. W will ul use e those Improved ed methods of oC business which been confined to the larger centers of or population At AthIs Athis Athis his Emporium jou ou Oll will be bo able abie as aa the saying paying goes to bu buy everything from a needle to an anchor Moreover to tom m meet et the convenience cOn of ot his customers J. J W. W will deliver goods g at l t your own doors door distributing them with his own carts either In the town of or Barbie or at atan an any convenient distance from the same Being n n. native o of th the district his business husIc bus hus- I c Incas iness hopes to secure a n. due share of oC your our patronage c. Thanking you OU In lit anticipation for tor the favor of ot an early visit Belle Believe me mC Ladies and Gentlemen I yours ours faithfully JA JAMES IES WILSON VILSON I Such was ras the poster with which Barbie and antI surrounding neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood were besprinkled within a week cek of or J Ws s appearance on the scene lie He was known as J J W. W ever ver after arter To be known by your Initials Is sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times a mark marlc of affection and sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times a a. mark marl of or respect It was not a a. amark mark of or affection In the of or case our J W. W When Donald Scott slapped him on the back and cried 4 Hullo Hulio J J. W. W how are the anchors selling Barbie Bar Bar- bie hie had Imad found a n. cu cue which It was not slow to make u use c of or Wilson even re received received re- re letters addressed to J JV W. W Anchor Anchor Anchor An An- chor Merchant l No z-o. 1 The Cross Ours Is a a nippy locality But Wilson cosy and cocky In his own good opinion was Impervious to the chilly winds of ot scorn corn His po posters In big blue letters were on the door and antI on tho the silos silles of oC ever every brig within a n circuit of or five miles the they were pasted in smaller red reel letters on the gateposts of ot er c every form and Robin Hobin Tam Tarn tho tio bellman handed them a about out from door to door The folk folic could talk of or nothing else Dodl said the Provost when he ho read the bill weve vve a new nev departure here This is 19 an unco splutter a. a as the sow Y said when she tumbled in the an gutter t ter Aye Ae said Sandy Toddle a n fuff furt In Inthe Inthe inthe the pan Im I'm Im I'm thinking He promises re ov-re to last long He lie loud to be merry at nt the end ot For the loudest no the thc best bee as my rath father r honest man u used d to tell the minister I Ah Im I'm no sure o 0 that said I Tarn Tam Brodle BrodIe I foregathered wi wl WIson Wilson Wil WI- son on on Wednesday last and antI I tell ye sirs hes he's worth the watching They'll need to st stand nd on a lL baikie that put the branka branks on him He has hns the tho considering consider ing lag eye oc in hi his head head yon yon lang lane far away glimmer at a a. thing thins from out the tho end of ot the eye Ho lie turned It on my- my bell three times the cunning devil II trying to Ieee heck keek Ie Into me to see Bee If Ir ho ha could use me And look at the chance chanco he ho has Theres There's two stores In Barbie to be he sure but a dirty beast boast and folk have a at ut his hiN goods and a a. swine and his place but guided That's a n gr great nt stroke o 0 policy too promising to lo deliver folks folk's goods on their own doorstep to them Ther Theres There's Theresa a whole bang JIng-bang of at out-lying out that hell he'll get the tho trade of b by la a dodge like that The like was waa never d before I wadna adna wonder but It works wonders It did It was partly policy polley and partly pO accident ned acci dent that brought Wilson back bade to Bar Bar- bie hie lie He had been managing a wealthy old merchants merchant's store for a long bong time In Aberdeen and he had hall been blithely looking forward to the tho goodwill of it it wh n Jink at the tho old mans man's death leath in stepped a nephew and O I ousted led tho the poo oar fellow He lie had bawled shrill shrilly but to no purpose he had to be travel travel- in log When hen he ro rose e to greatness in BarbIe Barbie Bar Bar- bie ble It was whispered that the nephew discovered he was feathering his own nest and antI that w was WIlS the n reason ason of his sharp dismissal But perhaps w we should credit that report to Barbie's disposition rather than to Wilsons Wilson's mis mIs- demeanor Wilson Wilton might have set up tot for hImself himself himself him hIm- self in the nippy northern town But It Is an Instinct with men who have ha met with a R rebuff In a place to shake Its dust from their chow cloes and be ort oft ortto to tr seek their fortunes In the larger world We Vc take a s at the tho place that has hns used Ill usell us ua us Wilson took n a at Aberdeen en and tIe decided to leave it and look around him Scotland was wan opening up find there were bound to be heaps of oC chances for a n. man bike him A UA man like me was a frequent frequent fre ftc quent phrase of ot Wilsons Wilson's retired anil solitary speculation Aye Aye 1 Aye bo hI said emerging from one of f hl his business reveries reveries rev rev- eries cries there's theres bound hound to be bo heaps healS 0 o chances for a man flU like me If It I only look about me Inc He was looking about him In with his hIt Glasgow when he foregathered cousin William William the the borer he lie After many How Ho are ye e and muI mutual mutual mu mu- I over a bit mouthful of so so they phrased It it but that wn was waa a meIosIs for thc they drank fIve quarts they quarts they fell tell to a 0 serious discussion 1 of or the commercial p possibilities of ot Scot Scot- land laud The borer wa va was of the opinion that the Braes Brace of or Barbie had hall a Do future I. I yet for Tor 3 a the gaffer was so keen on keeping his men In the thc dark about the coal Now Not Wilson knew as ns what Scotsman does docs not that in the middle fifties borIng coal In Scotland was not th the honorable profession that It now no Is More than once speculators procured lying reports report that there were no minerals minerals miner miner- als ala and after landowners had been ruined by their abortive preliminary experiments stepped in In bought the tile theland theland land and antI boomed It In one notorious case cas a n family now no great reat in the public public pub pub- lic lie eye bribed a lairds laird's own borers to conceal the truth and then buying the tho Golconda from front Its Impoverished d owner laid the basis of or a vast fortune Dye mean mean to to tell tell tell-me me Wilson said James Jame giving him his i full name In the solemnity of or the tho momen moment mo mo- men mont ment t dye de mean mean to to tell tell me sir sir here heie he sank Bank his his- voice to a whisper whisper- at that theres there's wo ik A declare r to God A said Wee Wee- yum um with equal solemnity nn and he nodI nodded with alarmed sapience across s his hla beer Ju Jug You believe helle theres there's plenty plent of oC coal up Barbie talie Valley and that they're there keeping It dark in the meantime for tome sonic purpose of or their own I 1 do said paid God God said saltI James Jame gripping the ta table ble with both hoth hands In his excitement G God ld If JC th that's tS t'S no so o what a 3 chance there Is In Barbie It has been a dead town for twenty year ear nn and twenty to the end ot 01 A verra would bu buy the hauf ot But property ull rise In value like a 3 stool at dark if It the pits come roun roundS round It It It will that If It I wa was vas only onh sure lIure of your e lyum Id I'd Id Invest cst every I have ha I Int nt Youre You're going goin home the night are ye e miot I I was Just o on the road read to th tho station station station sta sta- tion when I 1 met you ou said saltI Send me a n. scra scrap of ot your cur pen to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow man If Ir what you OU see e on getting getting get get- et- et ting back keeps you rou still In the same mind ot And Anel directly I get your letter letter letter let let- ter Ill I'll run down j wp and look about me The letter was 35 encouraging encouragIng- and andi Wilson Wilson Wil VII son went ent forth to sr soy P y th the land and Initiate the plan of or campaign It was an Important day for him He entered entered entered en en- on his his' feud fend with and bOll bought ht Rab flab house and barn with the field behind it for Cor a a. trifle He had hall hoc hundred ll of his own anti and he knew where moro more could be had h. for forthe forthe forthe the asking flab Rab JamIeson's barn was a n. curious building to be stranded In Lu the midst of ot Barbie In quaint villages and lit littie little little lit lit- tle tie towns of En England lantI you ou sometimes see a mellow tiled red barn with Its rich yard lud close upon the street It seems to have been heen hemmed In by the houses round while dozing so that It could not escape with the fields fleeing from the town There It remains and give a ripeness to the place matching fitly nth with the great horse chestnut yellowing yellowing yel yel- el lowing before the door an and the old oM Inn further down mantled In Its bl red blood creepers But the autumnal warmth and cosiness Is rarely seen In the barer streets to the north How Rab flab JamIeson's JamIe JamIe- sons son's barn came camo t to be stuck in Barbie liar Bar bie ble nobody could tell It was a gaunt s-ra s gray building with never a n. window ow but a bole high in one corner for auld Rab n. n There was no mill mm In Inside inside in- in side and the place had lind not been used usel for years cars But the roof was waa good and th the walls waIls stout and antI thick and Wilson soon got to work on his new pos posses posses- s- s aba sion He ha had seen all that he could of ot the place tho the moment he clapped an anee eye ee on It and he knew that he h had found a good thing even if it the pits should never come to Barbie The bole and door next tho str t were walled wailed up and antI a n fine new door opened in the middle flanked on either side by n n. great window Tho The interior was titled fitted up with a couple of counters and n a wooden floor and ani above tho the new wood ceiling there was as a loft lot for a n. store storeroom storeroom storeroom room li lighted h by skylights lIghts in Ira the roof That loft above the rafters thought the provident Wilson will come in braw and handy for storing things so It will And there he hey presto the transformation was waa achieved and antI Wll- Wll sans san's Emporium stood before you It On was sas crammed with merchandise of or a a. couple the white flapping slant of ot awnings one 0 tr o 1 each window you ou might read In black letters J JAMES WILSON EMPORIUM I The letters of ot James Jame II Wilson on made a n. triumphal arch to which Emporium was the base It seemed symbolical 4 Now No the shops of oC Barbie the tile drunken drunk drunk- en mans man's shop and antI tho the dirt dirty man mans man's S shop hop always excepted of ot course had usually been low little places on which you OU might read In dim gilt letters 01 or it might be he In white to Sell Tea Tobacco was on one me corner of the scroll to Sell Tea 8 occupIed occupied occupied pied the flowing arch above with Tobacco Tobacco Tobacco To bacco In the other corner When hen you mounted two steps anti opened the thedoor thedoor thedoor door a bell 1011 of oC some somo kind went ping in the Interior and an old woman In Ina ina a 3 mutch with big hig specs slipping down her nose would come up a step from rein AdIm a adim adim dim little room behind and wiping her sunken mouth with her tier apron apron she she had Just loft left her tea would tea would 53 say hats your our SCull wull the day sir And AntI If It you said ml your our wull suhl was tobacco she ehe would answer Ou sir I dinna sell lIell now but the tape and sweet sweet- ies And then you went aW away l sadly With the exception of ot the tho dirty mans man's shop and the drunken mans man's shop that kind of or shoo shon was the tho Barbie kind of or shop But Wilson lIson changed all nit that One sido of ot the Emporium was crammed with pots pans pails palls scythes gardening Implements ansas an- an and saws sa with a big barrel of or ort oft offin ortIn in it a L corner The Th rafters ratters on that side wore were ere bristling and hoary with brushes of or all kinds dep dependent n ent from the roof root so 80 that th the ministers minister's wIre wife who was a n six footer wont went oft off with a brush In her bonnet once Behind the tho other I counter were canisters In goodly g rows lows barrels of or flour nour and ond bags of ot meal andI and I great treat yellow ellow cheeses In the window T The Tc e rafters here were hea heavy with their wealth of or hams skinned brown Hitches of or bacon Interspersed with the tho white while tight corded home cured Best as s Wilson on christened It It All along the back In class ass eases to keep them unsullied w were rc of cloth la layer laer |