It continued inveterately to occur, for that matter, that whenever he had taken one of his greater turns he came back to where she so faithfully awaited him.

None of these excursions had on the whole been livelier than the pair of incidents--the fruit of the short interval since his previous visit--on which he had now to report to her.

He had seen Chad Newsome late the night before, and he had had that morning, as a sequel to this conversation, a second interview with Sarah.

"But they're all off," he said, "at last." It puzzled her a moment.

"All ?--Mr.Newsome with them ?" "Ah not yet! Sarah and Jim and Mamie.