“That may be; but I am sure this picture could never have been taken for you.”
“Let me see it, if you please?”
Sue handed him the card, and he glanced at it with an expression of great curiosity.
“Where did you get this picture?” demanded he.
“It was sent to me by the original,” replied she.
“This is not my picture.”
“That is just what the other gentleman said; and I am perfectly willing to believe both of you.”
“But I sent you a picture of myself, though this is not the one.”
“Well, that is very singular.”
“If you will remember, there were two in the same letter; the other was a young man whom Owen was acquainted with, and who desired something to remember him by. He is in a Mississippi regiment now.”