"A place where they used to hold conventions, I believe. 'The Succotash
Tavern'——"
"What does that mean?"
"I've heard it spoken of, I think," said Virgilia faintly. "It was built of cottonwood logs and stood at the fork in the river. 'The Hard-Shell Baptist Church,'——" she read on.
"Do you know anything about that?"
"I think I've seen it in old photographs. It stood on one side of
Court-House Square."
"Did it have a steeple?" asked Dill droopingly.
"I believe it did—quite a tall one."
"Of course it did!" he groaned. "And so it goes. One building hugs the ground and the next cleaves the sky. Yet they've all got to be used for the decorative filling of a lot of spaces precisely alike."
"What does Giles think of this?" asked Virgilia.
"He's crazy."