Presently the room was deserted.
In the hall the gentleman from Kentucky passed his arm within that of a tall man, obviously from the North.
"I have just got word within the week of the arrival of a daughter at my own home out in Kentucky," said he.

"I am in a position to understand all and several the statements in Exhibit A, my dear Sir! 'The darling!' "But what a woman,--what a woman!" he went on meditatively.

"Sir, if I were a single man, as I am a married man, I should offer to her, upon the spot, a union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!".