"Why are you up here?" Before there was time for reply he added: "Surely a young man like you could find, nearer home, many a gate ajar. And you must have had glimpses through of—things many and fair."
"Oh, yes, I've had glimpses of those things."
"Well——"
"What I wanted most I never saw."
"You wanted——"
"To be—sure."
"Ah! it is one of the results of agnosticism."
The Boy never saw the smile.
"I've said—and I was not lying—that I came away to shorten the business of fortune-making—to buy back an old place we love, my sister and I; but——"
"Which does she love best, the old place or the young brother?"