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 said, with the happy expression of a man who has resolved a doubt:

"Oah, yes, John Henderson, of Greene. He lived out at Rabb's Corners. Yes, that's him; the governor 'p'inted him public administrator of Greene County right after that session."

The train lurched, and Jennings, bracing himself, wrapped up his bottle and stowed it carefully away in his valise. And swinging the valise in one hand and with the other hitching up his trousers, now beginning to drag at his heels, he stepped away in his stockinged feet to his berth.

Baldwin began to wind his watch, and the Limited, with its three hundred tons, and its tossing heads full of the schemes of politics, went careering away on its paper wheels toward the capital of Illinois.