He had quite a little list in his mental archives of women, wedded and otherwise, who interested him agreeably or otherwise.

Neither Mrs.Carrick nor Cecile was on that list.

Shiela Cardross was--and had been for two years.
* * * * * Hamil, sitting on the terrace beside Mrs.Cardross, became very busy with his note-book as soon as that languid lady resumed her book.
"If you're going to import wild boar from Germany," he said to Cardross, "you'll have to fence in some ten miles square--a hundred square miles!--or they'll take to the Everglades." "I'm going to," returned that gentleman calmly.

"I wish you'd ask McKenna to figure it out.

I'll supply the cypress of course." Hamil leaned forward, a little thrilled with the colossal scheme.