I can, therefore, only say, keep as cool as possible, and wait as patiently as possible a few days longer, when you shall know the best or the worst." A mad imprecation fell from the lips of Mr.Lyon, as he threw this letter from him.

He was baffled completely.

Two more days of wearying suspense went heavily by, and then another letter came to the impatient waiter.
"This place," so Leach wrote, "will soon be too hot to hold me, I'm afraid.

If not mistaken in the signs, there's something brewing.
Twice, to-day, I've been inquired for at the hotel.

To-morrow morning early I shall prudently change my quarters, and drop down to Washington in the early cars.