A Long Fourney 163

“T will come back as soon as I am able,”
answered the Visitor. ‘And you will re-
member me, all right. There are so many
things that only we two know: I will shout
out some secret word at once, and you will

know it is I. But .... Do you think
you will be here then? ... . We all have
such long journeys to go, and journeys tell
on people.”

“JT don’t understand,” said Doris, re-
proachfully.

“Tf only I had time,” said the Visitor,
“T could tell you all sorts of stories. It is
curious that I sometimes had none to tell.
.... You will promise to be here when
I come back ?”

‘Of course,” said Doris.

“Then I will tell you a little story:
Once upon a time there was a man who
wanted to be a king., He was only a
gardener really, and on Saturdays he used
to cut his biggest cabbages and his finest
flowers (except a few, that were so beauti-
ful he could not let any one else have them)