It was only last month that I turned a good trade--a very good trade--on a tract of the finest trees in Wisconsin." "The dickens!" exclaimed the older gentleman explosively.

"So you're the Turner who sold us our own lumber! Now I know you.

I'm Stevens, of the Maine and Wisconsin Lumber Company." Sam Turner laughed aloud, in both surprise and glee.

Mr.Stevens had now reached for his own card-case.

The two gentlemen exchanged cards, which, with barely more than a glance, they poked in the other flaps of their cases; then they took a new and more interested inspection of each other.