The name of Claude A.Goldenheart was, so to speak, in everybody's mouth." Amelius listened to this, with the colour suddenly deepening on his face, and with every appearance of heartfelt annoyance and regret.
"There is no such thing as keeping a secret in America," he said, irritably.

"Some spy must have got among us; none of _our_ people would have exposed the poor lady to public comment.

How would you like it, Mr.
Dingwell, if the newspaper published the private sorrows of your wife or your daughter ?" Rufus Dingwell answered with the straightforward sincerity of feeling which is one of the indisputable virtues of his nation.

"I had not thought of it in that light, sir," he said.

"You have been good enough to credit me with a wife or a daughter.