Sellers, and to sound him about the Washington visit.

How was he getting on with his navigation scheme, would it be likely to take him from home to Jefferson City; or to Washington, perhaps?
"Well, maybe.

If the people of Napoleon want me to go to Washington, and look after that matter, I might tear myself from my home.

It's been suggested to me, but--not a word of it to Mrs.Sellers and the children.
Maybe they wouldn't like to think of their father in Washington.

But Dilworthy, Senator Dilworthy, says to me, 'Colonel, you are the man, you could influence more votes than any one else on such a measure, an old settler, a man of the people, you know the wants of Missouri; you've a respect for religion too, says he, and know how the cause of the gospel goes with improvements: Which is true enough, Miss Laura, and hasn't been enough thought of in connection with Napoleon.