You spoke of the Three-Notched Road.
Are you from Albemarle ?" "Yes, sir.

I am Gideon Rand's son." "Indeed! Gideon Rand! Then Mary Wayne was your mother ?" "Yes, sir." "I remember," said the gentleman, "when she married your father.

She was a beautiful woman.

I heard of her death while I was in Paris." The boy's regard, at first solely for the books, had been for some moments transferred to the gentleman who, it seemed, was a lawyer, and had known his people, and had been to Paris.

He saw a tall man, of a spare and sinewy frame, with red hair, lightly powdered, and keen blue eyes.