Bram Stoker: The Complete Novels. A to Z Classics

recollection of their first meeting, roared with laughing too. Then Reginald came and slapped him on the shoulder and said:

      “Come with me, Dick. I’ve got something that will make you feel more comfortable than this Sacramento rig out!” Then he straightway took him off to his own room.

      Some fifteen minutes afterwards there was a buzz of admiration through the room when Dick entered, clad in a hunter’s outfit, something like his own, which Reginald had some time before bought from the Indians as a model for his work.

      There was about him something so fresh, and wild, and free — so noble a simplicity and manhood, that more than one woman present did not wonder that Esse had asked him to come down to ‘Frisco.