He rode Dixy early in the mornings with Leila at his side, fished or swam in the afternoons, and so the days ran on.

On September 30th, Ann was to take Leila to the school in Maryland.

Three days before this terrible exile was to begin, as they turned in at the gate of the stable-yard, Leila said, "I have only three days.

I want to go and see the Indian graves and the spring, and all the dear places I feel as if I shall never see again." "What nonsense, Leila.

What do you mean ?" "Oh, Aunt Ann says I will be so changed in a year, I won't know myself." "You mean, you won't see things then as they are seen now." "Yes, that's what I wanted to say, but you always know how to find the right words." "Perhaps," he said.