It had made a sharp advance of ten dollars a thousand feet.
Out of the window, as he looked up, he saw Miss Westlake and Miss Hastings crossing the lawn, and he suddenly realized that he was here to wear himself out with rest, so he hurried in the direction the girls had taken; but when he arrived at the tennis court he found a set already in progress.

Both Miss Westlake and Miss Hastings barely nodded at Mr.Turner, and went right on displaying grace and dexterity to a quite unusual degree.

Decidedly Mr.Turner was being "cut," and he wondered why.

Presently he strode down to the road and looked up over the hill in the direction he knew Hollis Creek Inn to be.

He was still pondering the probable distance when Mr.Westlake and Billy and young Princeman came up the brook path.
"Just the chap I wanted to see, Sam," said Mr.Westlake heartily.