[The Four Pools Mystery by Jean Webster]@TWC D-Link bookThe Four Pools Mystery CHAPTER I 12/13
The best rest in the world is a counter-irritant." This was Terry all over; he himself was utterly devoid of nerves, and he could not appreciate the part they played in a man of normal make-up.
My being threatened with nervous prostration he regarded as a joke.
His pleasantries rather damped my interest in deep-sea fishing, however, and I cast about for something else.
It was at this juncture that I thought of Four-Pools Plantation.
"Four-Pools" was the somewhat fantastic name of a stock farm in the Shenandoah Valley, belonging to a great-uncle whom I had not seen since I was a boy. A few months before, I had had occasion to settle a little legal matter for Colonel Gaylord (he was a colonel by courtesy; so far as I could discover he had never had his hands on a gun except for rabbit shooting) and in the exchange of amenities which followed, he had given me a standing invitation to make the plantation my home whenever I should have occasion to come South.
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