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Stirling, you've been as true as steel with us, and with the other
men. I don't want you to suppose we are not conscious of it. I think
you've done us a great service to-night, although it might have been
very profitable to you if you had done otherwise. I don't think that
you'll lose by it in the long run, but I'm going to thank you now, for
myself. Good-night."
Peter had a good night. Perhaps it was only because he was sleepy, but a
pleasant speech is not a bad night-cap. At least it is better than a
mental question-mark as to whether one has done wrong. Peter did not
know how it was coming out, but he thought he had done right, and need
not spend time on a blank wall that evening.


CHAPTER XXIII
THE CONVENTION.

Though Peter had not gone to bed so early as he hoped, he was up the
next morning, and had tramped his eight miles through and around
Saratoga, before the place gave many evidences of life. He ended his
tramp at the Congress spring, and tasted the famous water, with
exceeding disgust at the result.


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