Though he could discuss Alice Rokeby, one of those vague, sweet women who seem designed by Nature to develop the sentiment of chivalry in the breast of man, he felt that it would be disloyal to speak lightly of his hero, John Benham.

"You could never guess where I've been," he said with relief because he had got rid of the subject.

"I might as well tell you in the beginning that I have just left the Governor." "Gideon Vetch!" exclaimed Corinna, as she dropped into a chair at his side.

"Why, I thought you were as far apart as the poles!" "So we were until ten minutes--no, until exactly an hour ago." "It makes my blood boil when I think of that circus rider in the Governor's mansion," said the General indignantly.

"Do you know what my father would have called that fellow?
He would have called him a common scalawag--a common scalawag, sir!" The Judge laughed softly.