They were pretty poor, I fancy, from all Mr. Lockwood has told me, but
they were very ambitious. They were--I'm telling you this, you
understand, because it concerns you somewhat: well, more or less. They
were great sportsmen, and whenever they could get away from the law
office they would go off shooting. I think they were fonder of each
other than brothers even. I've heard Mr. Lockwood tell of the days
they lay in the rushes along the Chesapeake Bay waiting for duck. He
has said often that they were the happiest hours of his life. That was
their greatest pleasure, going off together after duck or snipe along
the Maryland waters. Well, they grew rich and began to know people;
and then they met a girl. It seems they both thought a great deal of
her, as half the New York men did, I am told; and she was the reigning
belle and toast, and had other admirers, and neither met with that
favor she showed--well, the man she married, for instance. But for a
while each thought, for some reason or other, that he was especially
favored. I don't know anything about it. Mr. Lockwood never spoke of
it to me. But they both fell very deeply in love with her, and each
thought the other disloyal, and so they quarrelled; and--and then,
though the woman married, the two men kept apart.
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