"I've been back there in the grass," he said, "and because—because nothing happened to me I'm taboo."
"Is that all?"
"As far as they know—yes."
"Well!" said I, "my business will take me back there for days at a time, so I'll be taboo, too. Then there'll be two of us. Did you find any curious grasses for me?"
"I don't know about grasses," he said, "but I found something very curious that I want to show you and ask your advice about. Are you going to share my house?"
"I think I'll keep head-quarters on the schooner," I said, "but if you'll put me up now and then for a meal or for the night——"
"I'll put you up for lunch right now," he said, "if you'll come. I'm my own cook and bottle-washer since the taboo, but I must say the change isn't for the worse so far as food goes."
He was looking and speaking more cheerfully.
"May I bring Don?"