Bertrand gave them a look of defiance.
It seemed to Harry that he wanted to speak, but he pressed his lips firmly together, and, looking straight ahead of him, walked to the stairway, down which he disappeared.

As Harry still stood in the open doorway, Whitridge and Fowler approached.
"Can we come in ?" Whitridge asked.
"Yes, Harvey," said Colonel Kenton over the boy's shoulder.

"Both of you are welcome here at any time." The two men entered and Harry gave them chairs.

Whitridge's creaked beneath him with his mighty weight.
"George," said the Senator pointedly but without animosity, "you and I have known each other a good many years, and we are eighth or tenth cousins, which counts for something in this state.

Now, you have come here to Frankfort to pull Kentucky out of the Union, and I've come to pull so hard against you that you can't.