The things we do!

Thank you, I shall
taste your bourbon, Colonel, with gladness. It is a long ride in
from the river; but, following out our friend's thought, why do you
live away back in here, when all your best plantations are down
below? We don't see you twice a year, any more."
"Well," said the owner of Tallwoods, "my father might be better
able to answer that question if he were alive. He built this for a
summer place, and I use it all the year. I found the place here,
and it always seemed too big to move away. We set three meals a
day, even back here in the hills, and there's quite a bunch of
leaves we can put on the table. The only drawback is, we don't see
much company. I'm mighty glad to see you, and I'm going to keep
you here now, until--"
"Until something pops open," remarked the Honorable William, over
the rim of his glass. Dunwody's neighbors nodded also.
Their host looked at them for a moment. "Are you here on any
special errand--but of course there must be something of the sort,
to bring you two gentlemen so close on my trail.


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