31/37 My father got them when he first came down here from Montreal. He wanted Lost Wing as a sort of bodyguard. It was a good deal wilder in this region then than it is now, and father owned a good deal of land." "So Ba'tiste tells me. He says that practically all of the forests around here are yours." "They will be, next year," came simply, "when I'm--" She stopped and laughed. Twenty-one." "He never could keep anything to himself." "What's wrong about that? |