I don't often take sudden fancies, Jim, but I knew your uncle, and I'd bet consider'ble on any member of his family.

And I _was_ kind of interested in that novel of yours.

You haven't said you'd come again.

Will you ?" Pearson was much embarrassed.
"I should like to come, immensely," he said, with an earnestness unmistakable; "but--but, to be honest, Captain Warren, there is a reason, one which I may tell you sometime, but can't now--neither Miss Warren nor her brother have any part in it--which makes me reluctant to visit you here.

Won't you come and see me at the boarding house?
Here's the address.