'I am with Gretchen.

She is on the train with me, and I'm trying to make out what it is she is telling me.' But after Chicago was left behind his mood changed, and he became as wild and excitable as he had before been abstracted and silent.
Sometimes he was on the top of old Capitan, looking down into the valley below, and singing 'glory, hallelujah,' at the top of his voice, while the startled passengers kept aloof from him as from a lunatic.

Again he was out upon the platform urging the conductor to greater speed; and when at last Shannondale was reached, he bounded from the car upon the platform before the train stopped, and was collaring Rob, the coachman, and demanding of him to know what was the matter with Jerrie, and why he had been sent for.

Rob, who had received his instructions to be wholly non-committal answered stolidly that nothing was the matter with Jerrie, but that Miss Maude was very sick and probably would not live many days.
'Is that all ?' Arthur said, gloomily, as he entered the carriage.

'I do not see what the old Harry has to do with Maude's dying, and certainly Tom's telegram said something about that chap.