'Twas just somethin' I heard Colonel Davidson say, that's all." He paused.

Mrs.Armstrong did not speak.

After an interval he continued: "'Twas one day along the last of the season.

The Davidsons had company and they'd been in to see the shop and the mills and vanes and one thing or 'nother.

They seemed nice, pleasant enough folks; laughed a good deal, but I didn't mind that.