He doesn't see his chances.

But he's a good fellow, and you can tell him that Sellers won't go back on him." "By the way," asked Harry, "who is that rather handsome party that's hanging 'round Laura?
I see him with her everywhere, at the Capitol, in the horse cars, and he comes to Dilworthy's.

If he weren't lame, I should think he was going to run off with her." "Oh, that's nothing.

Laura knows her business.

He has a cotton claim.
Used to be at Hawkeye during the war.
"Selby's his name, was a Colonel.