See that feller just goin' up to the lawyer's office?
He's one that's in the marry class, just now.

That's Colonel Guthrie.

He lives out on the first farm beyond Main Street, and he's goin' to marry Sally Briggs, daughter of old Pap Briggs, that we was talkin' to last night, here." Eliph' Hewlitt stared at the Colonel, but he said nothing.

He blamed himself; he had wasted his opportunity.

This was what came of being slow! He should have completed his courtship at the picnic, or last night at the sale.