Nevertheless, he dreaded to hear him speak again of her; and the fear was realized in a question.
"Does she know you are here ?" "Who ?" said Brant curtly.
"Your wife.

That is--I reckon she's your wife still, eh ?" "Yes; but I do not know what she knows," returned Brant quietly.

He had regained his self-composure.
"Susy,--Mrs.Senator Boompointer, that is,"-- said Hooker, with an apparent dignity in his late wife's new title, "allowed that she'd gone abroad on a secret mission from the Southern Confederacy to them crowned heads over there.

She was good at ropin' men in, you know.

Anyhow, Susy, afore she was Mrs.Boompointer, was dead set on findin' out where she was, but never could.