"You are sensitive, sir." DeGolyer, sadly smiling, replied: "He who suffered in childhood, and who in after life has walked hand in hand with disappointment, and is then not sensitive, is a brute." "How well do I know the truth of that! DeGolyer, I have been acquainted with you but a short time, but you appeal to me strongly, sir.

And I could almost tell you something, but it is something that I ought to keep to myself.

I could make you despise me and then offer me your regard as a compromise.

Oh, that American republic of ours, fought for by men who scorned the romance of kingly courts, is not so commonplace a country after all.

Many strange things happen there, and some of them are desperately foul.