"'Tain't heavy, and I've lugged it so fur already sence I got off the car that I feel kind of lonesome without it." The butler, not knowing exactly how to answer, grinned sheepishly.
Captain Elisha turned to Mrs.Dunn and her son.
"Well, good afternoon, ma'am," he said.

"I'm real glad to have made your acquaintance.

Yours, too, sir," with a nod toward Malcolm.

"Your mother told me what a friend of the young folks you was, and, as I'm sort of actin' pilot for 'em just now, in a way of speakin', any friend of theirs ought to be a friend of mine.

Hope to see you often, Mr.Dunn." The young man addressed smiled, with amusement not at all concealed, and languidly admitted that he was "charmed." "Your first visit to the city ?" he inquired, in a tone which caused Stephen to writhe inwardly.
"No-o.