"Where have you been since----" He stopped abruptly, and Blake laughed.
"Since you surreptitiously said good-by to me at Peshawur?
Well, after that I went to Penang, and from there to Queensland.

Stayed a time at a pearl-fishing station among the Kanakas, and then went to England for a few months." "But how did you manage ?" Bertram inquired with some diffidence.

"It raises a point you wouldn't let me talk about at Peshawur, but I've often felt guilty because I didn't insist.

Traveling about as you have done is expensive." "Not to me," Blake explained with a twinkle.

"I've turned adventurer, and I have the Blake gift of getting along without money." He added in an explanatory aside to Blanche: "For two or three generations we kept open house and a full stable in Ireland, on a revenue derived from rents which were rarely paid, and if I hadn't been too young when a disaster gave the creditors their chance.