11/18 Snug quarters you have here; really, I never quite appreciated their charm, before." They seated themselves on the porch. Conrad Lagrange--thinking of Sibyl Andres and that letter which he had left on the gate--from under his brows, watched their caller closely; the while he filled with painstaking care his brier pipe. Mr.Taine tells me you are going to the mountains." "We're not giving up this place, though," replied Aaron King. "Yee Kee stays to take care of things until our return." "Oh, I see. I generally go into the mountains, myself for a little hunt when the deer season opens. |