The truth was that each separate person
had feared that he would feel a little left on one
side,--he to whom so much was due on that day. And each
person, severally, down to the Brick himself, had gone
secretly, without consulting the others, to select from
his own possessions something very dear, and had wrapped
it up and marked it for the stranger. When Mr. Kuypers
opened a pretty paper, to find Matty's own illustrated
Browning, he was touched indeed. When in a rough brown
paper he found the Brick's jack-knife labelled "FOR THE
MAN," the tears stood in his eyes.
The next day the "Evening Lantern" contained this
editorial article:--
"The absurd fiasco regarding the accounts of Mr.
Molyneux, which has occupied the correspondents of the
periodical press for some days, and has even been
adverted to in New York journals claiming the title of
metropolitan, came to a fit end at the Capitol yesterday.
The wiseacre owls who started it did not see fit to put
in an appearance before the committee. Mr. Molyneux
himself sent to the Chairman a most interesting volume of
manuscript, which is, indeed, a valuable historical
memorial of times that tried men's souls. The committee
and other gentlemen present examined this curious record
with great interest. Not to speak of the minor details,
an autograph letter of the lamented Gen.
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