Willy Eddy rose and, ostentatiously, at his own risk, drove the intruder away, and was gratefully thanked.

Truly hero-worship, while it is often foolish and fool-making, is not the worst sentiment of mankind.

When the great man made a move to order his coachman to take the wonderful rig away, and drive, because the horses were restive and needed exercise, and he himself--the delicate humor of the thing--also needed exercise and would walk home, Amidon sped in his service as he had never sped in the service of the long-suffering wife, at that moment struggling painfully with the Sunday dinner, and bringing wood from the shed to replenish the fire.
Carroll did not need to lead up to his mining and other interests.
The subject was broached at once by the others.

The postmaster opened it.

He spoke with less humility than the others, as being more on a footing of equality.
"Well, captain, heard lately from the Boniflora ?" he asked, knowingly.