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Cal Davidson took on five drune at Memphis, and no man may tell what other supplies at

this or that other point along the river He evidently suspected no

pursuit, or, if he did, was a swaggering varlet enough, for, according

to all accounts which we could get, he loitered and lingered along,

altogether at his leisure, with due attention to social matters at

every port; for if he had not a wife at every port, at least, he had

an acquaintance of business or social sort, so that, one ht be

sure, there were few dull moments for him and his party, whether

afloat or ashore He must have attended a dinner-party and two

theaters at Me three thousand

dollars out of a cousting details I did not seek to learn Trust Davidson to

He

always had the best of everything; and surely now he had, for the

leisurely, ease-seeking Belle Helène, not actuated by any vast

motive beyond that of the bee and the honey flower, slipped on down

and ahead with perfect ease, while we, gri raceful Belle Helène

chose to show us her light disdainful heels, serenely indifferent

because wholly ignorant of our existence