Cap' Girardeau, seventy-five mile.

You'll want for go there ?" he added cunningly.
"Sometime," she remarked calmly.

Eleazar was shrewd in his own way.

He strolled off to find his spade.
Before she could resume the conversation Josephine heard behind her in the hall a step, which already she recognized.

Dunwody greeted her at the door, frowning as he saw her sudden shrinking back at sight of him.
"Good morning," he said.