"Miss Jane telephoned me about him this morning."
"And what did you tell her?"
"That he's working too hard."
"Nothing more serious?"
"That's plenty serious enough, Colonel, if he sticks at it. I talked to him a little while ago, and he wanted to throw me out the window. Nobody can make him stop that grind!"
"Jane can," the old gentleman grunted.
"She's going to try, anyway, when he takes his lessons to her this afternoon. But she told me he was so impatient now preparing himself to go up in the mountains and be a Lincoln to his people, that she really doubts if she can influence him without help."
"Be a Lincoln to his people, eh?"
"Yes, emancipate them from the chains of ignorance, he calls it."
"By Godfry, sir, that isn't a bad idea! Whose help does she want?"