2/40 She had settled down and taken charge of the household as a matter of course, as if he were her father, or brother, or as if she were a man like himself. "It is like a page out of some romance. Here I come along out of the sea and find a sick man all alone with two hundred slaves--" "Recruits," he corrected. They serve only three years, and they are free agents when they enter upon their contracts." "Yes, yes," she hurried on. |