Colonel Carter of Cartersville by Francis Hopkinson Smith

While the judge's decision had relieved the colonel of all responsibility so far as Yancey and Cartersville were concerned, -- and Yancey would be Cartersville when he was back at the tavern stove, -- there was one person it had not satisfied, and that was the colonel himself.

He began pacing the floor, recounting for my benefit the various courtesies he had received since he had lived at the North, -- not only from the proprietors of the office, but from every one of its frequenters. And yet after all these civilities he had so far forgotten himself as to challenge a friend of his host, a very worthy gentleman, who, although a trifle brusque in his way of putting things, was still an open-hearted man. And all because he differed with him on a matter of finance.