"You fellows," said Floyd to McDowell, during one of Sister Ann's sessions, "are the greatest lot I ever struck." He spoke in a half-quizzical, half-admiring way, and showed some effort to handle the language with the Western ease and freedom of those to the manner born. "Do you know, when I had been here three or four months some fellows took me with them to the banquet of the Deal Estate Board. Well, it was an eye-opener; I never saw anything like it. It was Chicago—all Chicago. Heavens! how the town was hymned and celebrated! It was personified—"
"That's right," said McDowell.
"And glorified—"
"Of course."
"And deified—"
"Why not?"
"Why not, indeed?" cried Aim Wilde. "I haven't been around much yet, but you strike me as the most imaginative lot of people I ever saw."
"Whenever Chicago is involved," amended Walworth.
"Sure."
"How you idealize it!" cried Ann, enthusiastically. "How you—"