If I had had any doubts about that, I would have borrowed another musket for him.
I left the city pretty early the next morning, and if this grizzled man had not happened to encounter my name in the papers the other day in St.
Louis, and felt moved to seek me out, I should have carried to my grave a heart-torturing uncertainty as to whether he ever got out of the riots all right or not.

I ought to have inquired, thirty years ago; I know that.

And I would have inquired, if I had had the muskets; but, in the circumstances, he seemed better fixed to conduct the investigations than I was.
One Monday, near the time of our visit to St.Louis, the 'Globe- Democrat' came out with a couple of pages of Sunday statistics, whereby it appeared that 119,448 St.Louis people attended the morning and evening church services the day before, and 23,102 children attended Sunday-school.

Thus 142,550 persons, out of the city's total of 400,000 population, respected the day religious-wise.

I found these statistics, in a condensed form, in a telegram of the Associated Press, and preserved them.