He knew all kinds of calls--said all the wild things answered to them." "Was he a great naturalist ?" The cheerful vanity faded from Spence's face, leaving it sombre.
"He--would have been," he said briefly.
Miss Farr asked no more questions.

It was a restful way she had.

And perhaps because she did not ask, the professor felt an unaccustomed impulse.

"He was a wonderful chap," he volunteered.

"There are few like him in a generation.