"Was I not your guest?
How could I come from a house where I had been admitted to a delightful intimacy and tell the representatives of the law that my host was the man they were looking for ?" During some seconds Forbes bent his eyes on the floor, seemingly in deep thought.
"Theydon," he said at last, looking up in his direct way, "I am your senior by a good many years--am old enough, as the saying goes, to be your father.

I may venture, therefore, to give you a piece of sound advice.

Pack a kit-bag, catch the afternoon boat train for Boulogne, and go for a walking tour in Normandy and Brittany.

When I was your age and a junior in a bank I had to take my holidays in May; each year I tramped that corner of France.

I recommend it as a playground.