geeiea]| HIE Visitor, being for the time
; an idle man, had taken to
dropping in quite often of a
morning at Doris’s garden.
Sometimes she laid on him
the task of beguiling the hours before lunch
with stories ; sometimes, more greatly con-
descending, she would tell him her own
pretty secrets, while he lounged at ease and
lazily looked down upon the harbour and
the quiet bay that lies beyond it.
On this particular morning Doris had
demanded a tale, and he had promised obe-
dience. But he did not desire to attempt