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He said very little, and looked at nobody, until some casual rean to talk, laconically at

first, and finally with great fluency It was all about hiood talker, as a ht to be who has

knocked about four continents and seen strange er women

You could tell that Miss Batchelor was interested, for she had turned

round in her chair now and was looking hiht in the face It

seeain He had

been reporter to half-a-dozen provincial papers He had been tutor to

Somebody's son at some place not specified He had tried his hand at

co in Texas, and had been

half-way to glory as a captain of irregulars in the Soudanese war No,

nobody was more surprised than himself when that ht he had chucked civilization for good For good?

But--after his exciting life--wouldn't he find civilization a

little--dull? (Miss Batchelor had a way of pointing her sentences as if

she were speaking in parables) Not in the country, there was hardly

enough of it there, and he had never tried being a country gentleman