I certainly am having the grandest time." She sat with her sailor hat filled with Early Harvest apples, a big bunch of Canadian anemones in her belt, a little stream at her feet, July drowsy fullness all around her, congenial companions; taking the "wings of morning" paid, after all.
"Why do you want to hear him so much ?" asked John.
Kate looked up at him in wonder.
"Don't you want to see and hear him ?" she asked.
He hesitated, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Finally he said: "I can't say that I do.

Will you tell me why I should ?" "You should because he was one of the men who did much to preserve our Union, he may tell us interesting things about the war.

Where were you when it was the proper time for you to be studying the speech of Logan's ancestor in McGuffey's Fourth ?" "That must have been the year I figured out the improved coupling pin in the C.N.

W.shops, wouldn't you think, Mother ?" "Somewhere near, my dear," she said.
So they drove back as happily as they had set out, made themselves fresh, and while awaiting the lecture hour, Kate again wrote to Robert and Nancy Ellen, telling plainly and simply all that had occurred.