"She did."

"Well, it's a pretty thing. I wish I were rich. I lost a little boy
too."

The monument-maker at this begins a discourse on the economies of his
business and shows that he can meet the requirements of any income or
purse.

"Did you see Lockwin's portrait at the institute?" asks the third party,

"No. Is it good?"

"I hardly think so. I don't remember that he ever looked just like it.
Everybody knew Lockwin, yet I doubt if he had more than one close
acquaintance and that was Tarpion--Doc. Tarpion."

"Does the doctor act as her adviser in all these affairs? Did you read
about the dedication? Did you know about the hospital? She had better
keep her money. She'll need it."

"She? Not much. She had a big estate from Judge Wandell's sister who
died. The judge himself has no other heir. I shouldn't wonder if he
advised the erection of the hospital to give her the credit of what he
intended to do for himself."

"Well, I never knew a town to be so full of one man as this town is of
Lockwin. You'd think he was Douglas or Lincoln."