“Fishing again, I see,” he observed, as he reached my side. “Any luck?”

“Fair,” I told him.

“What pond?”

“Seabury's.”

“Go alone?”

“Yes.” That I had not been alone since was no business of his.

“Humph! You ain't exactly what a fellow'd call talkative this afternoon, seems to me. Anything wrong?”

“No.”

“Tuckered out?”

“I guess so.”