Let me have a word as soon as you can." "You ought to get a cable from Sydney in about six or seven months," said his father.
His son nodded.

"Don't trouble about any expressions of affection," he urged; "they'd come expensive.

If you find me dead of overwork when you come back----" "I shall contest the certificate," said his father, with unwonted frivolity.
"I wonder how we shall sleep to-night ?" said Mrs.Stobell, with a little shiver.

"Fancy, only a few planks between us and the water!" "That won't keep me awake," said Mrs.Chalk, decidedly; "but I shouldn't sleep a wink if I had left my girls in the house, the same as you have.
I should lie awake all night wondering what tricks they'd be up to." "But you've left your house unprotected," said Mrs.Stobell.
"The house won't run away," retorted her friend, "and I've sent all my valuables to the bank and to friends to take care of, and had all my carpets taken up and beaten and warehoused.

I can't imagine what Mr.
Stobell was thinking of not to let you do the same." "There's a lot as would like to know what I'm thinking of sometimes," remarked Mr.Stobell, with a satisfied air.
Mrs.Chalk glanced at him superciliously, but, remembering that he was her host, refrained from the only comments she felt to be suitable to the occasion.