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the foot of Annandale's main street was a dock where

several s dismantled for the winter As I passed, a man

approached the dock in a skiff, landed and tied his boat

He started toward the village at a quick pace, but turned

and eyed !" I said "Any ducks about?"

He paused, nodded and fell into step with h to pay for the trouble"

"I'uess you're a stranger in these parts," he re me as an alien

"Quite so My naht be hie I'an, caretaker

of the resorters' houses up the lake"

"I suppose you all knew ht say as we did, or you ot

next to in a hurry He kept pretty much to himself

He built a wall there to keep us out, but he needn't have

troubled himself We're not the kind around here to

meddle, and you may be sure the summer people never

bothered him"