I answered the letter." "As-" "Yes; I signed your name.

I told you that I had just let things go on," Crailey answered, with an impatient movement of his hands.

"What are you going to do ?" "I'm going over to see the Governor in the morning.

I'll be away two or three days, I imagine." "Vanrevel!" exclaimed Crailey hotly, "Will you give me an answer and not beat about the bush any longer?
Or do you mean that you refuse to answer ?" Tom dropped his cigar upon the brick window-ledge with an abysmal sigh.
"Oh, no, it isn't that," he answered mildly "I've been thinking it all over for three days in the country, and when I got back tonight I found that I had come to a decision without knowing it, and that I had come to it even before I started; my leaving the letter for you proved it.

It's a little like this Mexican war, a mixed-up problem and only one thing clear.