He was a strange man, Euan." "Your foster father ?" "Aye.

And my foster mother, too, was a strange woman." "Were they not kind to you ?" "Y-es, after their own fashion.

They both were vastly different to other folk.

I was fed and clothed when anyone remembered to do it, And when they had been fortunate, they sent me to the nearest school to be rid of me, I think.

I have attended many schools, Euan--in Germantown, in Philadelphia, in Boston, in New York.