For myself, I confess I was more suspicious.

Something about Orme set me on edge, I knew not what.

I heard them speaking further about Meriwether's being somewhere in the West, and heard Orme also say carelessly that he must in any case run over to Albemarle and call upon some men whom he was to meet at the University of Virginia.

We did not ask his errand, and none of us suspected the purpose of his systematic visiting among the more influential centers of that country.

But if you will go now to that white-domed building planned by Thomas Jefferson at Charlottesville, and read the names on the brazen tablets by the doors, names of boys who left school there to enter a harder school, then you will see the results of the visit there of Gordon Orme.
My little personal affairs were at that time so close to me that they obscured clear vision of larger ones.