He did not speak.
"So we turned and moved further up the lane then," went on Annie.

"I kept on asking him how he come here.

I told him I'd been too proud to send for him.

But now he'd come, how could I help loving him all over again!" "You didn't mean that," said Wid quietly.
"How much do you think I'd mean it?
That Dutch snake! Listen-- He told me more than the papers ever told.

He told me he'd been a sort of chief there in Cleveland right along, along in the war, and after peace was signed.