They disappeared from other sections of the Union with the mud; no doubt they will disappear from the river villages, also, when proper pavements come in.
We reached St.Louis at ten o'clock at night.

At the counter of the hotel I tendered a hurriedly-invented fictitious name, with a miserable attempt at careless ease.

The clerk paused, and inspected me in the compassionate way in which one inspects a respectable person who is found in doubtful circumstances; then he said-- 'It's all right; I know what sort of a room you want.

Used to clerk at the St.James, in New York.' An unpromising beginning for a fraudulent career.

We started to the supper room, and met two other men whom I had known elsewhere.