"How do you know 'tain't if you didn't see him ?" "'Cause he's comin' to the front door," replied Mr.Winslow, with unanswerable logic.

"There he is now, comin' out from astern of that lilac bush.

Soldier, ain't he ?" It was Ruth Armstrong who first recognized the visitor.

"Why," she exclaimed, "it is Major Grover, isn't it ?" The major it was, and a moment later Captain Hunniwell ushered him into the room.

He had come to Orham on an errand, he explained, and had stopped at the windmill shop to see Mr.Winslow.