Crossword-Solution: GILLIS 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

There is, however, one who is not with us today: Representative Gillis Long of Louisiana left us last night.

Gillis (Steve, of course—one of the “fighting Gillises”), a small, fearless young fellow, handsome, quick of wit, with eyes like needle-points.

This is the story, precisely as Gillis himself told it to the writer of these annals more than a generation later: “There was a German kept a cigar store in Virginia City and always had a fine assortment of meerschaum pipes.

Mark Twain himself has told in burlesque the story of his duel, keeping somewhat nearer to the fact than was his custom in such writing, as may be seen by comparing it with the account of his abettor and second—of course, Steve Gillis.

The fact is, he spent not more than a few days—a fortnight at most—in “butterfly idleness,” at the Lick House before he was hard at work on the ‘Call’, living modestly with Steve Gillis in the quietest place they could find, never quiet enough, but as far as possible from dogs and cats and chickens and pianos, which seemed determined to make the mornings hideous, when a weary night reporter and compositor wanted to rest.