He was her father and he naturally had a father's feeling for her, even if she was an octoroon.

And this stranger said that he had been around town and the country for some days looking at prospective husbands and making some inquiry, and that he had found no one to equal this man.

The man liked the octoroon, the octoroon liked the man.

And they struck a bargain.

The man got his $2500; he married the girl on the spot.