He was there that night." Ferris, who had cause for doing so, looked uncomfortable, and endeavored to sign to the first speaker that it was not desirable to pursue the topic.
"I have been in tolerably often of late.

Had things to attend to," he said.
The other man was, however, possessed by a mischievous spirit or did not understand him.

"You may just as well tell us now as later, because you never kept a secret in your life," he said.
In the meantime, several of the others had gathered about them, and Mrs.Macdonald, who had joined the group, smiled as she said, "There is evidently something interesting going on.

Mayn't I know, Gordon ?" "Of course," said the man who had visited the settlement.

"You shall know as much as I do, though that is little, and if it excites your curiosity, you can ask Ferris for the rest.