Two aimless citizens lounged on their horses, rapt in argument and the heavy labor of chewingso much so that they barely took notice of the troops.How?[Pg 241]Lawton believed himself to be ill-used. He had written to Stone a strangely composed and spelled account of the whole matter, and mingled reproaches for having gotten him into it; and Stone had replied that it was no affair of his one way or another, but so far as he could make out Lawton had made a mess of it and a qualified fool of himself.