Young man, do you want me to tell you your name ?" "Tell me my name!" responded Dick in astonishment.

"Of course you can't do it! You never saw or heard of me before." "Mebbe no," replied Jarvis, with calm confidence, "but all the same your name is Dick Mason, and you come from a town in Kentucky called Pendleton.

You've been serving with the Yanks in the East, an' you've a cousin, named Harry Kenton, who's been servin' there also, but with the Johnnies.

Now, am I a good guesser or am I just a plum' ignorant fool ?" Dick stared at him in deepening amazement.
"You do more than guess," he replied.

"You know.