"When I told him,--Mammy Chloe let him in,--when I told him that you were busy with your client, he thought no more of it.

And then we talked of Fontenoy, and he read me a letter from Uncle Edward.

Much of the letter was about Colonel Burr, and--and suspicions that were aroused.

Uncle Edward called him a traitor and a maker of traitors.

That is an ugly name, is it not?
Ludwell Cary did not think the rumour false.