The man rose instantly with an eager gratified look.
"Well, Paul, I didn't allow you'd remember me.

It's a matter of four years since we met at Marysville.

And now you're bein' a great man you've"-- No one could have known from the young man's smiling face that he really had not recognized his visitor at first, and that his greeting was only an exhibition of one of those happy instincts for which he was remarkable.

But, following the clew suggested by his visitor, he was able to say promptly and gayly:-- "I don't know why I should forget Tony Shear or the Marysville boys," turning with a half-confiding smile to the other visitors, who, after the human fashion, were beginning to be resentfully impatient of this special attention.
"Well, no,--for I've allus said that you took your first start from Marysville.

But I've brought a few friends of our party that I reckoned to introduce to you.