There was just something come over me.

I'm not very well, and I suppose I--" He stopped, as if he lacked words.
"May I get you anything, a drink of water ?" suggested Chester.
"No, no; it was nothing.

Sit down again"-- for Chester also had arisen--"and tell me some more about yourself.

I am interested." "Well, my life has been very uneventful, and yet in a way, I have lived.
As a boy in Chicago, I suppose, my young days passed as others; but it was when I went out west and met the 'Mormons' that things happened to me." "Yes, yes." "I don't mean that I had any adventures or narrow escapes in a physical way.

I lived in the mountains as a miner for a time, but there are no wild animals or Indians there now, so my adventures were those of the spirit, if I may use that expression,--and of the heart.