The Trumpeter Swan

ears younger than Major Prime. He was good-looking, well-dressed, but apparently in a very bad temper. Kemp, in an excited, Skye-terrier m

p, why are we ge

r said it was

train stopped. He had given the porter an extra tip to look after Major Pri

waiting-room. Around the station platform was a sea of red mud. Misty hills shot up in a circle to the horizon. There was not a house in sight

it. "Why in the name of Heaven didn't we get of

nse had the bounding quality of a rubber ball. "If you'll sit here

hole, Kemp. How ca

with a look on his face which clutched at Ma

"it's God's country-- I got my mother on the 'phone, Ma

he was to carry in his voice that ring of authority.

on where yo

ar Wate

heard o

l," said the

ned. "Then the Hami

terman of New

he'll send the car at once. He is del

ng must

to ricochet against his master's hardness and come back unhurt.

on, "but who would believe there is a place

ng with impatience. Suddenly he gave a shout, and the others looked t

was on his knees, the dog in his arms-an ecstatic, p

et with more than rain, but Randy was not ashamed

. Hello, there they come. Gee, Jefferson, but y

s. There was a great splashing of red mud as he

his master. "I sure is glad to see you, Mr. Randy.

. You run in there and

e flaps and gave a

ecky Ban

m, and he was holding her hands, protesting

venly to have you home. I caught Jefferson on t

t's so heavenly t

rom the door, decided that he had never seen such hair, bronze, parted on the side,

of the day at morn, of Botticelli's Simonetta, of Shelley's lark, of Wordsworth's daffodils, of K

He knew something of Browning and little of Keats, but he

air of absorption in her returned soldier. This absorption Dalton found himself subconsciously resenting. Following

orth across the platform, a creature as sh

him, asked, "Is t

hank H

Kemp, who had been fluttering around Dalton with an umbrella, darted into the waiting-room for the bags. The door of the limousine was opened by the footman, w

n here. You'll be crowded

perfectly, thank you," Ra

ing that glance, waked suddenly to the fact that he was

s i

ve on. She liked Major Prime. He was an old dear. But why h