She was all done up in furs, with a scarf over her
head,but I saw her eyes, and then I was sure.
I promised an old friend of yours to give you
amessage, if I ever ran across you. Niel felt that he musthelp her, or at least try
to. Peters is my lawyer and my tenant; Ihave to see him, and Im certainly not going
to his office.
They areall boys you know, and if you dont like
them, you ought to! They rummaged through the linen closet to findmore sheets, pried
about in the attic and cellar. When she came, she took Niels arm and led him into
the dining-room.
Ogdens position, he understood, was a difficult
one.
He didnt look aday older; one eye was still direct
and clear, the other cloudedand oblique.
It was already gone, that age; nothingcould ever
bring it back.
People said he was rich, but quarrelsome and rather
stingy.
I would like it myself, and itis better to be doing
something. Im a mining engineer,I spent some time in Buenos Ayres. Then you do
attendto his business for the present?
Youve got a safe thingat last, I should think; safe
and pasty! His sister Annie was in the kitchen, helping thehostess. Its all Ihave,
and if I leave it to tenants it will run down, and I cantsell it to
advantage.
Forrester had the old-fashioned notion that men
should bealone after dinner. Thank you, Niel, thank you, Tom, he often said when
they liftedhim into his chair.
Unless I keep the place up, I can never get my
price for it. All those platters andcovered dishes stuck away with the tarnish of
years on them!
Adolph just brought themto the kitchen door.
Hestayed at the camp until I could begin to walk, holding to his arm. And I will
plant some of his ownrose-bushes beside it.
Forrester, sitting in his uncles desk chair, tapped
thecarpet with the toe of her rubber boot. The men took turns carrying her, hugging
the canyonwalls with their shoulders as they crept along. When they came to sit out
the nightwith him, she turned the house over to them.