The marriage would take place in a very few weeks.
"I'll accept your explanation," said Mr.Crow composedly as he took a handful of cigars.

"Well, I guess I'll be startin' back.

It's gettin' kind o' late-like." There was a telegram at the livery stable for him when he reached that haven of warmth and rest in Tinkletown about dawn the next day.

It was from Chicago and marked "Charges collect." * * * * * "What girl and whose body," it said, "do you refer to?
Miss Lovering has been dead two years, and we are settling the estate in behalf of the other heirs.

We were trying to establish her place of residence.