lone, and
running his elbows into any and everybody's ribs that happened to come
in his way. He was generally first at the table when the bell rang; and,
as he had a good appetite, managed, while there, to secure a full share
of the delicacies provided for the company.

"Every one for himself," was the thought in his mind on these occasions;
and his actions fully agreed with his thoughts.

On crossing the mountains in stages as far as Cumberland, his greedy,
selfish, and sometimes downright boorish propensities annoyed his
fellow-passengers, and particularly a young man of quiet, refined, and
gentlemanly deportment, who could not, at times, help showing the
disgust he felt. Because he paid his half dollar for meals at the
taverns on the way, Tilghman seemed to feel himself licensed to
gormandize at a beastly rate. The moment he sat down to the table, he
would seize eagerly upon the most desirable dish near him, and
appropriate at least a half, if not two-thirds, of what it contained,
regardless utterly of his fellow-passengers. Then he would call for the
next most desirable dish, if he could not reach it, and help himself
after a like liberal fashion. In eating, he seemed more like a hungry
dog, in his eagerness, than a man possessing a grain of decency. When
the time came to part company with him, his fellow-travelers rejoiced
at being rid of one whose utter selfishness filled them with disgust.

In Philadelphia and New York, where Tilghman felt that he was altogether
unknown, he indulged his uncivilized propensities to their full extent.
At one of the hotels, just before leaving New York to return to
Baltimore, and there take the cars for the West again, he met the young
man referred to as a traveling companion, and remarked the fact that he
recognized and frequently observed him. Under this observation, as it
seemed to have something sinister in it, Tilghman felt, at times, a
little uneasy, and, at the hotel table, rather curbed his greediness
when this individual was present.

Finally, he left New York in the twelve o'clock boat, intending to pass
on to Baltimore in the night train from Philadelphia, and experienced a
sense of relief in getting rid of the presence of one who appeared to
know him and to have taken a prejudice against him. As the boat swept
down the bay, Tilghman amused himself first with a cigar on the forward
deck, and then with a promenade on the upper deck. He had already
secured his dinner ti