"Here! what does this mean, anyway ?" I think his daughter was about to explain, when there came another interruption.

From the driveway sounded the blare of an auto horn.
Johnson threw open the door just as the big car whirled up to the porch.
"Here we are!" laughed Carver, emerging from behind the drawn curtains of the machine.

"Home again from a foreign shore.

Come in, fellows, and have a drink.

We've had water enough for one night.