Now for work again my boy.

The trial will last to the middle of March, sure; Congress ends the fourth of March.

Within three days of the end of the session they will be done putting through the preliminaries then they will be ready for national business: Our bill will go through in forty-eight hours, then, and we'll telegraph a million dollar's to the jury--to the lawyers, I mean--and the verdict of the jury will be 'Accidental murder resulting from justifiable insanity'-- or something to, that effect, something to that effect .-- Everything is dead sure, now.

Come, what is the matter?
What are you wilting down like that, for?
You mustn't be a girl, you know." "Oh, Colonel, I am become so used to troubles, so used to failures, disappointments, hard luck of all kinds, that a little good news breaks me right down.

Everything has been so hopeless that now I can't stand good news at all.