"Barb!" cried Fannie. A volley of salutations followed: "Good-morning, Major"--"Why, howdy, Doctor.--Howdy, Jeff-Jack.--Shotwell, how are you? Let me make you acquainted with Mr. Fair. Mr. Fair, Captain Shotwell. Mr. Fair and his father, Captain, have put some money into our"--A tall, sallow, youngish man touched the speaker's elbow--"Why, _hel_-lo, Proudfit! Colonel Proudfit, let me make you," etc.--"I hope you brought--why, Sister Proudfit, I decl'--aha, ha, ha!--You know Barb?" General Halliday said, "John Wesley, how goes it?" Garnet sobered. "Good-morning, Launcelot. Mr. Fair, let me make you acquainted with General Halliday. You mustn't believe all he says--ha, ha, ha! Still, when a radical does speak well of us you may know it's so! Launcelot, Mr. Fair and his father have put some money"--Half a dozen voices said "Sh-sh!" "Ladies and gentle_men_!" cried Captain Shotwell. "The first haalf--the fro'--the front haalf of the traain--of the expected traain--is full of people from Pulaaski City! The ster'--the rear haalf is reserved faw the one hundred holdehs of these red tickets." (Applause.) "Ayfter the shor'--brief puffawn'--cerem'--exercises, the traain, bein' filled, will run up to Pulaaski City, leave that section of which, aw toe which, aw at least in which, that is, belonging toe--I mean the people containing the Pulaaski City section (laughter and applause)--or rather the section contained by the Pu--(deafening laughter)--I should saay the city containing the Pulaas'--(roars of laughter)--Well, gentlemen, if you know what I want to say betteh than I do, jest say it yo'se'ves an'----" His face was red and he added something unintelligible about them all going to a terminus not on that road, while Captain Champion, coming to his rescue, proclaimed that the Suez section would be brought back, "expectin' to arrive hyeh an hou' by sun. An' now, ladies and gentle_men_, I propose three cheers faw that gallant an' accomplished gentleman, Cap'm Shotwell--hip-hip--'" And the company gave them, with a tiger. At that moment, faint and far, the whistle sounded. The great outer crowd ran together, all looking one way. Again it sounded, nearer; and then again, near and loud. The multitude huzzaed; the bell clanged; gay with flags the train came thundering in; out in the blazing sunlight Captain Champion, with sword unsheathed, cried "Fire!" The gun flashed and crashed, the earth shook, the people's long shout went up, the sax-horns sang "Way Down upon the Swanee River"--and the tears of a true Southerner leaped into Barbara's eyes. She turned and caught young Fair smiling at it all, and most of all at her, yet in a way that earned her own smile.