Le looked solemn.
“‘Some gone east;
Some gone west;
And some rest
At Crow’s Nest,’”
ruefully answered the young man.
“And the camp’s broke up, as I thought it would be.”
“Yes, two years ago.”
“Well, it is some satisfaction to hear about Joe. And so now I won’t interrupt of you no longer, as I dessay you have a heap to talk about among your ownselves,” said Mrs. Anglesea, as she left the drawing room.
As soon as she was gone the family fell into more confidential conversation.