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"I'll stay, sir I--" His face worked nervously "I feel toward the

Captain as I would to ht that

perhaps--the old nursery has been cleaned and aired for weeks, Mr

Spencer"

Clayton felt a thrill of understanding for the old h all the

years he had watched and served them He had reflected their joys and

their sorrows He had suffered the fa shaped

it He had lived, vicariously, their good hours and their bad And now,

in his old age, he aiting again for the vicarious joy of Graha the house, sir?"

"I don't know I shall keeppeople ought to be alone, for a while There are

readjustments--You never married, Buckham?"

"No, Mr Spencer I intended to, at one time I came to this country to

tiht the echo of an old pain in Buckham's repressed voice

Buckhaedy?

Buckha toward the sunset,

Buckham had his memories