"Then come around and dine with me at the Burnet House. Afterward we will call upon your friends, the Watsons."
Mrs. Watson and Jennie had altered their plans and gone to a boarding-house, preferring that to a hotel.
"That will be agreeable to me, sir."
The dinner was excellent, and Tom did full justice to it.
"At one time this morning, Tom, it looked as if you would dine at quite a different place," said Mr. Waterbury, when they were eating the dessert.
"Yes, sir."
"You won't think much of Cincinnati's hospitality, eh, Tom?"
"Any place would be the same, where Vincent was," returned Tom.
"Very true; he and Graham will bring discredit on any city which they adopt as a home. How long shall you remain here?"
"I should like to stay long enough to see something of the city, but I cannot afford it. I must reach California as soon as possible."