ROBERTS: 'But I hope, my dear sir, that I didn't hurt you
seriously?'

BEMIS: 'Not at all--not the least.' Shaking him cordially by both
hands: 'I'm all right. Mrs. Roberts has healed all my wounds with
her skilful needle; I've got on one of your best neckties, and this
lace handkerchief of your wife's, which I'm going to keep for a
souvenir of the most extraordinary adventure of my life--'

LAWTON: 'Oh, it's an old newspaper story, Bemis, I tell you.'

WILLIS: 'Well, Aunt Mary, I wish Agnes were here now to see Roberts
in his character of MORAL hero. He 'done' it with his little
hatchet, but he waited to make sure that Bushrod was all right
before he owned up.'

MRS. ROBERTS, appearing: 'Who, Willis?'

WILLIS: 'A very great and good man--George Washington.'

MRS. ROBERTS: 'I thought you meant Edward.'

WILLIS: 'Well, I don't suppose there IS much difference.'

MRS. CRASHAW: 'The robber has been caught, Agnes.'

MRS. ROBERTS: 'Caught? Nonsense! You don't mean it! How can you
trifle with such a subject? I know you are joking! Who is it?'

YOUNG BEMIS: 'You never could guess--'