Some of the folks paddlin' home from the festival saw the auto go by and heard the crowd inside singin' and laughin' and hollerin'.

Nobody's goin' to sing a night like that unless they've got cargo enough below decks to make 'em forget the wet outside.

And Beriah Doane was over to Ostable yesterday and he says it's town talk there that young Parker--the boy the auto crowd was sayin' good-by to at the hotel--had to be helped up to his room.

No, I guess likely the Colton girl objected to her feller's gettin' tight and forgettin' her, so he and she had a row and her dad, the emperor, give him his discharge papers.

Sounds reasonable; don't you think so, yourself ?" I imagined that the surmise was close to the truth.