"Did--did--my wife----" began Warham.

"Did she say what she calculated to do ?" "Not a word, George." After a silence.

"You know how fond she is of babies." "Yes, I know," replied Warham.

"Fanny is a true woman if ever there was one." With a certain defiance, "And Lorella--she was a sweet, womanly girl!" "As sweet and good as she was pretty," replied Stevens heartily.
"The way she kept her mouth shut about that hound, whoever he is!" Warham's Roman face grew savage, revealed in startling apparition a stubborn cruelty of which there was not a trace upon the surface.

"If I ever catch the -- -- -- -- I'll fill him full of holes." "He'd be lynched--_whoever_ he is," said Stevens.
"That's right!" cried Warham.