Are you a neighbor of ours ?" "Not yet," answered Gavin, with almost exaggerated simplicity.
"But I was hoping to be.

You see I was out looking for a job in this neighborhood." "A job ?" repeated Milo, then, suspiciously: "Why in this neighborhood, rather than any other?
You say you were at Miami--" "Because this chanced to be the neighborhood I was wandering in," replied Gavin.

"As I explained to Miss Standish, I'd rather do some kind of outdoor work.

Preferably farm work.
That's why I left Miami.

There seemed to be lots of farms and groves, hereabouts." "Yet you were on your way back toward Miami, when Bobby overtook you?
Rather a long walk, for--" "A long walk," gravely agreed Brice.