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known to refuse. In consequence of these eccentrici- 

 ties he was looked upon with suspicion by the man- 

 ager of the house, who promptly sent him his bill at 

 the end of the week, together with a request to pay 

 up. The colonel put the bill in his pocket and prom- 

 ised to attend to it. A couple of days passed and the 

 manager stirred him up again, this time sending the 

 message that he must either pay the bill or leave. 

 The Colonel glared at the messenger savagely and 

 then asked, " Did the manager send you to me with 

 such a message ? " The clerk timorously replied that 

 he did. " Well," said the Colonel, " tell the manager 

 that I'll leave at once, for that is only faar, and I be- 

 lieve in bein' faar." And he left the hotel. It need 

 hardly be added that he left the hotel bill, too. 



As I have said, the novelist might find around the 

 " White " plenty of food for his fancy, full of richness 

 flavored with facts and seasoned with all the spice of 

 romance. The genial southern gentleman who is 

 superintendent of the hotel, and known far and wide 

 as " The Major," could, if he would, unwind many a 

 yarn on the late "unpleasantness." He might, for 

 instance, tell of the time when he, with a troop of 

 Confederate cavalry commanded the bridge over the 

 Greenbrier Kiver, six miles below here — when he 

 saw from the opposite hills an immense force of the 

 " Boys in Blue " defiling down the long road — when he 

 and his troop were discovered, and how the " Yanks" 



