CHAPTER X

THE EMPTY CORNER

hen I walked into Pogue's entry about fifteen years later, it seemed like walking into another world—I was a foreigner.

"How quare ye spake!" Jamie said, and Mary added demurely:

"Is it quality ye are that ye spake like it?"

"No, faith, not at all," I said, "but it's the quality of America that makes me!"

"Think of that, now," she exclaimed.