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.