He had forgotten the time limited for the guardianship, but the girl must soon be of age and off their hands.

If there had ever been any romantic or chivalrous impression left upon his memory by the scene in the mayor's office, I fear he had put it away with various other foolish illusions of his youth, to which he now believed he was superior.
Nevertheless, he would see the colonel, and at once, and settle the question.

He looked at the address, "St.Charles Hotel." He remembered an old hostelry of that name, near the Plaza.

Could it be possible that it had survived the alterations and improvements of the city?
It was an easy walk through remembered streets, yet with changed shops and houses and faces.

When he reached the Plaza, scarce recognizable in its later frontages of brick and stone, he found the old wooden building still intact, with its villa-like galleries and verandas incongruously and ostentatiously overlooked by two new and aspiring erections on either side.