Run along home, now, and tell Laura.

Lord, it's magnificent news--perfectly magnificent! Run, now.

I'll telegraph my wife.

She must come here and help me build a house.

Everything's all right now!" Washington was so dazed by his good fortune and so bewildered by the gaudy pageant of dreams that was already trailing its long ranks through his brain, that he wandered he knew not where, and so loitered by the way that when at last he reached home he woke to a sudden annoyance in the fact that his news must be old to Laura, now, for of course Senator Dilworthy must have already been home and told her an hour before.