On one or two occasions he had taken her to ride behind his fast horse, and he often brought bouquets and fruit, "given me by my clients and friends," he explained.

"One can't refuse little gifts like that, but it is a comfort, to a bachelor like me, to be able to hand them on--hand them on--yes." The first of August brought a new sensation and a new resident to East Wellmouth.

The big Colfax estate was sold and the buyer was no less a personage than E.Holliday Kendrick, John Kendrick's aristocratic Fifth Avenue cousin.

His coming was as great a surprise to John as to the rest of the community, but he seemed much less excited over it.

The purchase was quietly completed and, one pleasant morning, the great E.Holliday himself appeared in East Wellmouth accompanied by a wife and child, two motor cars and six servants.
Captain Obed Bangs, who had been spending a week in Orham on business connected with his fish weirs, returned to find the village chanting the praises of the new arrival.