But it had all been paid for by a perfectly solvent Union government.

So, if I were to consider it from the purely material standpoint, which you imagine to be the only one I have, I should rejoice over the raids of the rebels because they make trade for contractors.

I'm a patriot, even if I do not fight at the front.

Besides my feelings have been hurt." "In what way ?" The contractor drew from his pocket a coarse brown envelope, and he took from the envelope a letter, written on paper equally coarse and brown.
"I received this letter last night," he said.

"It was addressed simply 'John Watson, Washington, D.C.,' and the post office people gave it to me at once.