And then I remembered taking you up to hear that damnable slander, and I felt that I had a share in it, as far as you were concerned, and I longed to get at you somehow and tell you about it.

I wanted to get it off my chest.

And now," said he with a breath of relief, "thank God, I've been able to do so." "I wish you would tell me of an incident or two," said I.
"He has got a life-preserver that looks like an ordinary cane--had it specially made.

It's quite famous.

Men tell me that the knob is a rich, deep, polished vermilion.