A day! a week! who can tell how long ?" "Has he a doctor ?" Trent asked.
"The missionary, he is a medical man," Oom Sam explained.

"Yet he is long past the art of medicine." It seemed to Trent, turning at that moment to relight his cigar, that a look of subtle intelligence was flashed from one to the other of the brothers.

He paused with the match in his fingers, puzzled, suspicious, anxious.

So there was some scheme hatched already between these precious pair! It was time indeed that he had come.
"There was something else I wanted to ask," he said a moment or two later.

"What about the man Francis.