Then lifting his empty glass to the light, he looked at it with half closed eyes, in polite imitation of his companion's examination of the paper-weight, and set it down again.

A casual spectator from the window might have imagined that the two were engaged in an amicable inventory of the furniture.
"And the--er--actual circumstances ?" asked the Colonel.
"Oh, it was fair enough fight.

THEY'LL tell you that.

And so would HE, I reckon--if he could.

He was ugly and bedev'lin', but I didn't care to quo'll, and give him the go-by all the time.