Graham interrupted his refreshment to reply.

Very shortly Lincoln arrived, and Graham at once expressed a strong desire to talk to people and to be shown more of the new life that was opening before him.

Lincoln informed him that in three hours' time a representative gathering of officials and their wives would be held in the state apartments of the wind-vane Chief.

Graham's desire to traverse the ways of the city was, however, at present impossible, because of the enormous excitement of the people.

It was, however, quite possible for him to take a bird's-eye view of the city from the crow's nest of the wind-vane keeper.