se he gambles,' says old Glegg. 'I can see he
gambles by him pickin' up the salt cellar between his thumb an' middle
finger with the forefinger over the top like it's a stack of chips, one
evenin' when he stays to supper an' I asks him to "pass the salt."
Then ag'in, he don't drink; he tells me so himse'f when I invites him
to libate. I ain't goin' to have no teetotal son-in-law around,
over-powerin' me in a moral way; I'd feel criticised an' I couldn't
stand it, gents. Lastly, I don't like this yere felon's name none.'

"'Whatever is his name, then?' asks Enright. 'So far he don't confide
no title to us.'

"'An' I don't wonder none!' says old Glegg. 'It shows he's decent
enough to be ashamed. Thar's hopes of him yet. Gents, his name's Toad
Allen. "Allen" goes, but, gents, I flies in the air at "Toad." Do
you-all blame me? I asks you, as onbiased sports, would you set ca'mly
down while a party named "Toad" puts himse'f in nom'nation to be your
son-in-law?'

"'None whatever!' says Jack Moore; an' Dan an' Cherokee an' Texas
echoes the remark.

"'You-all camp down yere with a tumbler of Valley Tan,' says Enright,
'an' make yourse'f comfortable with my colleagues, while I goes an'
consults with our Gretna Green outfit in the r'ar room.'

"Enright returns after a bit, an' his face has that air of
se'f-satisfaction that goes with a gent who's playin' on velvet.

"'Your comin' son-in-law,' says Enright to old Glegg, 'defends himse'f
from them charges as follows: He agrees to quit gamblin'; he says he
lies a whole lot when he tells you-all he don't drink none; an' lastly,
deplorin' "Toad" as a cognomen, an' explainin' that he don't assoome it
of free choice but sort o' has it sawed off on him in he'pless infancy,
he offers--you consentin' to the weddin'--to reorganise onder the name
of "Benjamin Glegg Allen."'

"Son, this yere last proposal wins over old Glegg in a body. He not
only withdraws all objections to the nuptials, but allows he'll make
the pinfeather sport an' Abby full partners in the Sunflower. At this
p'int, Enright notifies the preacher sharp that all depends on him; an'
that excellent teacher at once acquits himse'f so that in two minutes
Wolfville adds another successful weddin' to her list of triumphs.

"'It 'lustrates too,' says Enright, when two days later the weddin'
party has returned to Tucson, an' Wolfville ag'in sinks to a normal
state of slumbrous ease, 'it sort o' 'lustrates how op