There's a place where I could grow them so that you'd come on them sudden, and you'd think they couldn't be true." "Grow them, Kedgers, begin to grow them," said Miss Vanderpoel.

"I have never seen them--I must see them." Kedgers' low, deprecatory chuckle made itself heard again, "Perhaps I'm going too fast," he said.

"It would take a good bit of expense to do it, miss.

A good bit." Then Miss Vanderpoel made--and she made it in the simplest matter-of-fact manner, too--the startling remark which, three hours later, all Stornham village had heard of.

The most astounding part of the remark was that it was uttered as if there was nothing in it which was not the absolutely natural outcome of the circumstances of the case.
"Expense which is proper and necessary need not be considered," she said.