Redmond will guide you, sir." [Illustration: "'This is one of those rare occasions ...

where goodness is amply ...

rewarded.'"] "All right, Howker," said Duane absently; and strolled on along the hall, thinking of Mrs.Dysart.
The front doors swung wide, opening on the Long Terrace, which looked out across a valley a hundred feet below, where a small lake glimmered as still as a mirror against a background of golden willows and low green mountains.
There were a number of young people pretending to take tea on the terrace; and some took it, and others took other things.

He knew them all, and went forward to greet them.

Geraldine Seagrave, a new and bewitching coat of tan tinting cheek and neck, held out her hand with all the engaging frankness of earlier days.