Williams, it should be added, was well ahead with the details, as considerate as was consistent with public enterprise, of the retiring member's malady, its duration, the date of the earliest symptoms, and the growth of anxiety in Mrs Farquharson, who had finally insisted--and how right she was!--on the visit to the specialist, upon which she had accompanied Mr Farquharson.
He sent round Rawlins.

So that Elgin was in possession of all the facts, and Walter Winter, who had every pretension to contest the seat again and every satisfaction that it wouldn't be against Farquharson, might naturally be expected to be taken up with them sufficiently to understand a man who slapped him on the shoulder in the post-office with the remark I have quoted.
"I guess they know what they're about," returned Mr Milburn.

"It's a bad knock for the Grits, old Farquharson having to drop out.

He's getting up in years, but he's got a great hold here.

He'll be a dead loss in votes to his party.