“I?”
Miss Van Patten was taking as long a time as possible to remove her hat. Her cheeks were decidedly scarlet. But she did not run as Barnes half expected her to do. She returned and dropped into a chair before the two men.
“This is as good as a story-book, Miss Van Patten,” exclaimed Langdon.
“It’s better than a story-book,” she laughed.
“When I received your note last night I thought you must be ill or something. Miss Schuyler said this morning that you had gone to walk.”
“Yes,” she murmured uneasily.
“We went after my baggage,” explained Barnes.
“So Miss Schuyler said. She tells me you’ve had lots of interesting experience in Alaska. I tried to get her to repeat some of your adventures but she told me I’d have to wait until I saw you.”
“So?” grinned Barnes, “but she knows almost as much about them now, as I do myself.”
“Nothing like getting them first hand,” said Langdon.