It's travel and adventure I've cared for--"
"And that you're throwing over now for a country shop."
"That I'm throwing over now to learn the ABC in the training school of
responsibility for the big load that's to come on my shoulders. I've
been asleep all these years. Thank Heaven I've waked up in time. It's no
merit of mine--"
"Mind telling me whose it is, then?"
"I should mind, very much--if you'll excuse me."
"Oh--beg pardon," drawled Lorimer.
Silence followed for a brief space, broken by Richard's voice, in its
old, genial tone.
"Tell me more about the cruise. It's great that you can have your
father's yacht. I thought he always used it through the summer."
"He's gone daffy on monoplanes--absolutely daffy. Can't see anything
else."
"I don't blame him. I might have gone in for aviation myself, if I
hadn't got this bigger game on my hands."
"Bigger--there you go again! Well, every man to his taste. The
governor's lost interest in the _Ariel_--let me have her without a
reservation as to time limit. Don't care for flying myself. Necessary
to sit up. Like to lie on my back too well for that.
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