16/19 "There ain't a house within two miles of here but mine, and he don't go there!" "You're a healthy lot, you are!" said Cavendish. "I wonder your largeness of heart ain't ruptured your wishbones long ago!" So saying, he retired to the stern of his raft and leaned against the sweep-handle, apparently lost in thought. His visitors climbed the bank and reestablished themselves on the wood-ranks. He asserted that he was the only well-born man within a radius of perhaps a hundred miles--he excepted no one. He knew who his father and mother were, and they had been legally married--he seemed to infer that this was not always the case. |