I know it was a ten-mile drive, and that I told the gentleman the fare, so as there might be no bother between him and William Tyler, my man, at the end; and he agreed to it in a liberal off-hand kind of way, like a man who doesn't care much for money.

As to farms within ten miles of here, there are a dozen at least, one way and another--some small, and some large." "Do you know of any place in the ownership of a gentleman who would be likely to lend his house to a friend ?" "I can't say I do, sir.

They're tenant-farmers about here mostly, and rather a roughish lot, as you may say.

There's a place over beyond Crosber, ten miles off and more; I don't know the name of it, or the person it belongs to; but I've noticed it many a time as I've driven by; a curious old-fashioned house, standing back off one of the lanes out of Crosber, with a large garden before it.

A queer lonesome place altogether.