Do you know a young man called Plinlimmon-- Archibald Plinlimmon ?" "Plinlimmon?
Ay, to be sure I do.

Met him there once--another soldier, youngish and good-looking--in the ranks, but seemed a gentleman--didn't catch his Christian name.

The Major introduced him as the son of an old friend--comrade-in-arms, he said, if I remember.
He was there with a black-faced fellow, whose name I didn't catch either." "That was Letcher!" "What?
The man Whitmore was talking with?
What were they saying ?" "They said something about a christening.

And Letcher asked for money." "A christening?
What in thunder has a christening to do with it ?" "That's what I don't know, sir." Mr.Rogers looked at me and rubbed his chin.

"I meant to take you to Lydia," he said; "but now that Whitmore's mixed up in this, I'll be shot if I do.