Oh, all right, all right.

I know you ain't the kind to talk.

Mind our own business, that's the motto you and me cruise under, hey ?" Yet, although the conversation in the substitute assistant's room was not again referred to by either, it had the effect of making the oddly assorted pair a bit closer in their companionship.

The mutual trust was strengthened by the lightkeeper's half confidence and Brown's sympathetic reception of it.

Each was lonely, each had moments when he felt he must express his hidden feelings to some one, and, though neither recognized the fact, it was certain that the time was coming when all mysteries would be mysteries no longer.