“Well,” added the traveller, “I wish him everything unpleasant for having spoken in so free and easy a way with such infinitely respectable people, and that you, sir, will beat him in this game—him and the others, be it understood!”
One would have had to be very churlish not to welcome the advances of a man of such politeness, and even such obsequiousness, a gentleman who was so much interested in the success of Mr. and Mrs. Titbury.
Who was this man? Mr. Robert Inglis, of Great Salt Lake City, who was returning there this very day—a commercial traveller on a large scale who knew the district thoroughly from having been everywhere about it for a number of years. After mentioning his name and occupation, he offered very politely to pilot the Titburys, and undertook to find a hotel that wo
