That's what I need--plenty of work--don't I, Shiela ?" The clear mellow horn of a motor sounded from the twilit lawn; the others were arriving.

He dropped her hand; she gathered her filmy skirts and swiftly mounted the great stairs, leaving him to greet her father and Gray on the terrace.
"Hello, Hamil!" called out Cardross, senior, from the lawn, "are you game for a crack at the ducks to-morrow?
My men report Ruffle Lake full of coots and blue-bills, and there'll be bigger duck in the West Lagoons." "I'm going too," said Gray, "also Shiela if she wants to--and four guides and that Seminole, Little Tiger." Hamil glanced restlessly at the forest where his work lay.

And he needed it now.

But he said pleasantly, "I'll go if you say so." "Of course I say so," exclaimed Cardross heartily.

"Gray, does Louis Malcourt still wish to go ?" "He spoke of it last week." "Well, if he hasn't changed his rather volatile mind telephone for Adams, We'll require a guide apiece.