"By the way, Colonel Dunwody," said he, "there was something right strange happened on the Vernon, coming down the Ohio, and I thought maybe you could help us figure it out.

There was another disappearance--that extraordinarily beautiful young lady who was there--you remember her?
No one knew what became of her.

When I heard about that Lily girl's escape, I sent my men with the two bucks on down home, with instructions for a little training, so they would not try the underground again right soon.
But now--" "Now about that Lily girl," interrupted the Honorable William Jones, who had once more forgotten his temperance resolutions,--"But hello, Colonel, what's this, wha-a-at's this ?" He picked up and exposed to view a small object which he saw lying on the hall floor.

It was a small pin of shell and silver, such as ladies sometimes used for fastening the hair.
"Somehow, I got the idea you was a bachelor man," went on the Honorable William cheerfully.

"Thought you lived here all alone in solitary splenjure; never looked at a woman in your whole life in the whole memory of man.