Listen to me, Peggy," he went on, sinking his voice suddenly and looking hard at her.
"I've got to know all about this.

It's no use keeping anything back.
Were you ever married to William Grant ?" Peggy dropped her voice too.
"Yis.

I was married twenty-five years ago at a place called Pike's pub, out in the Never-never country." "Who read the service, parson or priest ?" "Neither.

A mish'nary.

Mish'nary to the blacks." "Is he alive ?" "No, he died out there.