"The Snake Knife of the Pampas."
"Inza!" exclaimed Frank, as if somewhat in doubt. "Inza—here?"
"Yes!" she cried. "Isn't it a surprise? I knew I would surprise you, Frank."
"A surprise indeed! Why, you didn't let me know you were coming."
"No."
"How does it happen?"
"Aunt Abby knows some friends in New Haven, and she wished to visit them while she was in the East, so she asked me to come with her. You may be sure I was ready enough to come, and, as father is getting along very well, we were able to leave him."
"Then your father—he is improved?"
"A great deal since getting back to America. He raced all over Europe looking for health, but continued to get worse till he returned home. Now he says he believes this the healthiest country on the face of the earth."
"And he is right. If a person is not strong enough to endure the rigors of our Northern climate, there is the perfect climate of California. But I don't suppose you came here to talk climate."