"Oh, you have been all kinds of a fool, Marsh; I guess you've got on to the fact at last.

And I don't wonder you are anxious to see North hang, and that you won't go near him; I'd kill him if I stood in your place.

But maybe we can fix it so the law will do that job for you.

It seems to have the whip-hand with him just now.

Well, he was the whole thing with your wife when she went away this fall and then he began to take up with the general's girl--sort of to keep his hand in, I suppose--the damn fool! For she ain't a patch on your wife.