You can dismiss the subject from your
mind. I'm sure you have plenty to worry you with the mill and its
workers."
"I hev, sir, that I hev, and all the more because Lucius Yorke hes been
here while you were away and he left a promise with the lads and
lassies to come again and give you a bit of his mind when you bed
finished your laking and larking and could at least frame yourself to
watch the men and women working for you. Yorke is a sly one--you ought
to watch him."
John smiled, dropped his eyes, and began to turn his paper-knife about.
"Well, Jonathan," he answered, "when Yorke comes, tell him John Hatton
will be pleased to know his mind. I do not think, Jonathan, that he
knows it himself, for I have noticed that he has turned his back on his
own words several times since he gave me his mind a year ago."
"Well, sir, a man's mind can grow, just as his body grows."
"I know that--but it can grow in a wrong direction as easily as in a
right one. Now I must attend to my secretary; he sent me word that there
was a large mail waiting.
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