13/33 It can't be necessary for you to resort to kidnapping just to have somebody to talk to. I thought you were in Europe." "Nothing as bad as that! What's your name, if you don't mind ?" When Dan gave it, Thatcher nodded and thanked him. I envy you, by George! You see," he went on easily, as though in the midst of a long and intimate conversation, "they took me abroad, and it never really counted. They always treated me as though I were an invalid; and kept me for a year or two squatting on an Alp on account of my lungs. It amused them, no doubt; and it filled in my time till I was too old to go to college. |