Certain incidents that had appeared trivial at the time of their occurrence stood forth disquietingly now.

If Bassett had ceased to trust him, there must be a cause for the change; slight manifestations of impatience in a man so habitually calm and rational might be overlooked, but Dan had not been prepared for this abrupt cessation of confidential relations.

He was a bit piqued, the more so that this astounding editorial indicated a range and depth of purpose in Bassett's plans that Dan's imagination had not fathomed.

He tore out the editorial and put it away carefully in his pocketbook as Montgomery was called.
A messenger was at the station to guide him to the court-house, where he found Mrs.Owen and Sylvia waiting for him in the private room of the judge of the circuit court.

Mrs.Owen had, in her thorough fashion, arranged all the preliminaries.