He said things, you know.

Now, he had never seen the school-teacher before." "Yes, I have heard of that story," said Franklin, smiling as he recalled the somewhat different story of Sam and the waiter girl.

"I don't just recollect all about it." "It seems to me that the stage-driver said something--er, like--maybe he said it was 'like forgotten music' to him." Franklin coloured.

"The story was an absurdity, like many others about the West," he said.

"But," he brightened, "the stage-driver had never seen the school-teacher before." "I don't quite understand," said Mary Ellen coldly.