FRANKLIN
Send a postrider for him!
MCKEEN
It's eighty miles.
FRANKLIN
Well, that's not impossible. We have until nine o'clock tomorrow morning—it's now—let's see—just a little after twelve—that's nearly twenty-one hours.
MCKEEN
But Rodney was very ill when he went home last week.
FRANKLIN
Perhaps he's better by now. Write him a letter—send it by the postrider—urge upon him the enormous importance of his getting here by tomorrow morning.