She met him at the door and as he kissed her she noticed that there was a sober look in his eye.

Tenderly he brushed back a few stray locks of his wife's hair, saying as he did so, in a somewhat troubled tone: "Wife, it has come at last.

May the good Lord cease not to watch over our beloved but erring land." She inquired as to what he meant.

He led her to his study and read to her Belton's oration.
In order to understand the words which we have just quoted as being spoken by him to his wife, let us, while he reads, become a little better acquainted with Mr.King and his paper, _The Temps_.
Mr.King was born and reared in Virginia, was educated at a Northern University, and had sojourned for several years in England.

He was a man of the broadest culture.