Chapter Two.
The Prairie Merchants.
“New Orleans, April 3rd, 18—
“Dear Saint Vrain—Our young friend, Monsieur Henry Haller, goes to Saint Louis in ‘search of the picturesque.’ See that he be put through a ‘regular course of sprouts.’
“Yours,—
“Luis Walton.
“Charles Saint Vrain, Esquire, Planters’ Hotel, Saint Louis.”
With this laconic epistle in my waistcoat pocket, I debarked at Saint Louis on the 10th of April, and drove to the “Planters’.”