Miss Frona'll tell you." "You are a surprise, Mr.St.Vincent." Frona switched back to the point of interest, after briefly relating Harney's saccharine difficulties.

"The country must indeed have been a wilderness nine years ago, and to think that you went through it at that early day! Do tell me about it." Gregory St.Vincent shrugged his shoulders, "There is very little to tell.

It was an ugly failure, filled with many things that are not nice, and containing nothing of which to be proud." "But do tell me, I enjoy such things.

They seem closer and truer to life than the ordinary every-day happenings.

A failure, as you call it, implies something attempted.