“I must have known you anywhere, Randal, despite the change that time has wrought.”
“It has wrought changes in yourself as well. But you would seem to have prospered!” The Colonel’s face was rejuvenated by a look of almost boyish pleasure.
“Oh, I am well enough,” said Tucker. “And you?”
“As you see.”
The other’s grave dark eyes considered him. There fell a silence, an awkward pause between those two, each of whom desired to ask a hundred questions. At last:
“I last heard of you in Holland,” said Tucker.
“I am but newly home.”
The other’s eyebrows went up, a manifestation of surprise.
“Whatever can have brought you?”
“The war, and the desire to find employment in which I may serve my country.”