"What is that?"
"Who was the bare-headed rider on the Woolly Horse? Toney, can you tell? If I do not discover this secret, what will become of me when I return to my boarding-house where the five respectable maiden ladies are waiting to receive the information, which I have solemnly promised to obtain and impart? Toney, do you know who was the man on the Woolly Horse?"
"I do not."
"Have you been to the Widow Wild's house since the apparition dashed through the street on yesterday?"
"I was at the widow's house last night."
"What did you discover?"
"Nothing?"
"Did you allude to M. T. Pate?"
"I did."
"What did the widow say?"