I have seen something of the mountains, though, at tourist resorts--abroad." "Which means," commented the other, "that you have never seen them at all." Aaron King laughed.

"I dare say you are right." "And you-- ?" asked the novelist, abruptly, eyeing his companion.

"What brought you to this community that thinks so much more of its millionaires than it does of its mountains?
Have _you_ come to Fairlands to work ?" "I hope to," answered the artist.

"There are--there are reasons why I do not care to work, for the present, in the East.

I confess it was because I understood that Fairlands offered exceptional opportunities for a portrait painter that I came here.