Yet all he could do was to smile and bow adieu.
"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner.

"We'll see him on in Washington some day.

He is strengthening his forces now against Mr.Benton out there.

A strong man--a strong one; and a heedless." "Of what party is he ?" she inquired, as though casually.
"What a man's party is in these days," was his answer, "is something hard to say.

A man like Dunwody is pretty much his own party, although the Bentonites call him a 'soft Democrat.' Hardly soft he seems, when he gets in action at the state capital of Missouri yonder.