I couldn't understand how they had disappeared so quick, but Captain Jim has enlightened me.

They flew away, of course." Captain Jim laughed and went away, regretfully declining an invitation to stay to supper and partake of cherry pie.
"I'm on my way to see Leslie and ask her if she'll take a boarder," Miss Cornelia resumed.

"I'd a letter yesterday from a Mrs.Daly in Toronto, who boarded a spell with me two years ago.

She wanted me to take a friend of hers for the summer.

His name is Owen Ford, and he's a newspaper man, and it seems he's a grandson of the schoolmaster who built this house.