"My name's Hugh Gordon, and I want to find out something about your marriage with Peggy Donohoe." "Well, if that's what you come for, Mister," said the veteran, pulling a firestick out of the fire, and slowly lighting his pipe, "if that's what you come for"-- puff, puff, puff--"you've come on a wild goose chase.

I never knew no Peggy Donohoe in my life.

My wife"-- puff--"was a small, dark woman, named Smith." "I thought you told my brother that you married Peggy Donohoe." "So I might have told him," assented the veteran.

"Quite likely I did, but I must ha' made a mistake.

A man might easy make a mistake over a thing like that.