"Now, if there is anything I can tell you about this country." "I wonder," said Alice Deringham, "whether you know Mr.Alton of Somasco." "Oh, yes," said the man, with a little smile.
"You have worked for him possibly ?" said the girl.
Harry the teamster nodded.

"Considerably harder than I ever did for anybody else," he said.
The next question required some consideration, and he appeared to ruminate over it.

"You mean what kind of man he is ?" he said.

"Well, he's not very much to look at, and there are a good many things he don't know." "So I should have fancied," said the girl, more to herself than the listener, and wondered whether it was an effect of the firelight or the curious twinkle had once more flashed into his eyes.

"You do not seem to like him ?" she said.
The man looked into the fire.