Achmed Abdullah

“ Amidst the roar and riot of it Tom's words seemed homely, simple. They seemed out of place and tinged with a certain nostalgic melancholia, and it was perhaps that which went to the young girl's heart and caused her to droop her eyelids.
"Why, Tom," she said, faltering a little, "you must not ..."
"Mustn't I? You just bet I must! How do you know what's going on in my heart, Bertha? Say—at times my love fairly, oh, chokes me, and ..." He collected himself. ”

“ And when the young Westerner, in want of something better to say, mentioned that Martin Wedekind in Spokane had given him a letter of introduction to his brother, searched in his pocketbook, found the note, and handed it to the German, the latter read it, ejaculated once more his favorite slogan of: "Charmed, my dear sir, charmed!" and linked his arm familiarly through that of Tom's. ”

“ The rest of his sentence was swallowed in the suck and rush of the incoming train and a moment later the Colonel returned, smiling, officious, over-polite, and bundled the two young Americans into a first-class compartment marked: "Reservirt." ”