You know ?" The big man moistened his lips; he was strangely excited.
"So you climbed into the arena and rode the horse ?" "Exactly! I knew you'd understand! After I'd ridden the horse to a standstill and climbed off, a good many people gathered around me.

One of them was a big man, about your size.

In fact, now that I look back at it, he was a good deal like you in more ways than one; looked as if time had hardened him without making him brittle.

He came to me and said: 'Excuse me, son, but you look sort of familiar to me.

Mind telling me who your mother was ?' What could I answer to a--" A shadow fell across Anthony from the rising height of his father.