"I'd like to go to Timberville," he said to Palmer, when he showed the communication. "The smell of pine and spruce would do a fellow a world of good."
"It wouldn't suit me," said Palmer, with a decided shake of his head. "Why, you have no amusements in a place like that—no theaters, no concerts, no billiard parlors, nothing."
"And yet people get along very well without them," smiled Robert.
"They can't have very elevated tastes."
"Perhaps more elevated than you think, Livingston. I've known some lumbermen who were very well educated."
"If I made a change do you know what I would do?" asked Palmer.
"No."
"I would go on the stage," said the senior clerk earnestly.
"What stage? Perhaps the variety stage the adorable Alameda is on, eh?"