I will catch up with you presently." When the bear and I, with the rest of the party, were fairly out of sight of the house, we stopped and waited for Mr.Larramie, and it was not long before he joined us.
When we reached the hay-barn we were met by the rest of the Larramie family, all anxious to see the bear.

Even Miss Edith, who had had one glimpse of the beast, was very glad indeed to assure me that she did not wonder in the least that I had supposed there would be no harm in leaving such a mild creature for a little while by the side of the road, and I was sure from the exclamations of the rest of the family that Orso would not suffer for want of care and attention during his stay in the hay-barn.
I was immensely relieved to get rid of the bear and to leave him in such good quarters, for it now appeared to me quite reasonable that I might have had difficulty in lodging him anywhere on the premises of the Cheltenham, and under any circumstances I very much preferred appearing at that hotel without an ursine companion.

As soon as we reached the house I told Mr.Larramie that it was now necessary for me to hurry on, and asked if there were not some way to the hotel which would not make it necessary for me to go back to the main road.
The good gentleman fairly shouted at me.

"You aren't going to any hotel!" he declared.

"Do you suppose we are heathens, to let you start off at this late hour in the afternoon for a hotel?
You have nothing to do with hotels--you spend the night with us, sir! If you are thinking about your clothes, pray dismiss the subject from your mind.
If it will make you feel better satisfied, we will all put on golf suits.