"I needn't go in--" "I prefer to go alone," said the colonel.

"I wish to turn the points over in my mind, and I am afraid you would find me rather dull company." He went out, and Fulkerson returned with Miss Woodburn to the drawing-room, where she said the Leightons were.

They, were not there, but she did not seem disappointed.
"Well, Mr.Fulkerson," she said, "you have got an ahdeal of friendship, sure enough." "Me ?" said Fulkerson.

"Oh, my Lord! Don't you see I couldn't do anything else?
And I'm scared half to death, anyway.

If the colonel don't bring the old man round, I reckon it's all up with me.