Wherever this man Wallingford went he left behind him a trail of high hopes, a glimpse of a better day to dawn.
Immediately after the dispersal of the meeting Mr. Wallingford and “Mr. Dorcas” shook hands ecstatically.
With his children (of whom he had eight), the surname became Wallingford.
Wallingford looked him squarely in the eyes, with an entire change of manner, and chuckled.
