"It was Russian. … You go on and tell me while I take another hot bath!——"
Wier followed him into the bath-room and vaulted to a seat on the deep set window-sill:
"— When they weren't talking Russian and laughing they talked to me and admired the woods and mountains. I had to tell them everything — they wanted to see buffalo and Indians. And when I told them there weren't any, enquired for bears and panthers.
"We saw two deer on the Scaur, and a woodchuck near the house; I thought they'd jump out of the flivver——"
He began to laugh at the recollection: "No, sir, they didn't act tired and sad; they said they were crazy to get into their knickerbockers and go to look for you——"
"Where did you say I was?" asked Darragh, drying himself vigorously.
"Out in the woods, somewhere. The last I saw of them, Mrs. Ray had their hand-bags and Jerry and Tom were shouldering their trunks."
"I'm going up there right away," interrupted Darragh excitedly. "—
Good heavens, Ralph, I haven't any clothes here, have I?"
"No, sir. Bu those you wore last night are dry——"
"Confound it! I meant to send some decent clothes here—— All right; get me those duds I wore yesterday—— and a bite to eat! I'm in a hurry, Ralph——"