“Yes, sir—some years ago. He’s dead now, you know.”
“Yes, I remember—I must—let me see—I was in the forty-third Congress with him, was I not, Colonel?”
“The forty-fourth,” corrected the colonel.
“To be sure, the forty-fourth. He was a very fine man. I formed a very high opinion of him.”
“Yes, he was a fine man,” said Garwood. “I read law in his office.”
“Did you, indeed? He was a very good lawyer, as I recall him. We sat on the judiciary committee together. Did he have a good practice?”
“Oh, yes, the best at the Grand Prairie bar. He was the best jury lawyer we ever had there.”
“Yes, he was a good speaker. Was the breach in the party created by his peculiarly strong character healed at his death?”
“Well, it’s pretty much healed now; for a long time it bothered us, but we never hear of it any more.”
“Pretty popular with the people, was he?”