id examination in Latin, quizzed them in physics and promised the
whole company a course of lectures on astronomy.

Perky strolled away in one direction; the Governor in another and
Archie, left to his own devices, fumed at this desertion. The two would
meet somewhere and plan the next strategic move, Archie surmised, and he
was irritated to find himself denied a place in their councils. He
refused an invitation to sit in at a poker game that was being organized
in the farm hands' house and wandered idly about the premises. The
residence was a two-story farmhouse, with a broad veranda evidently
quite recently added. As Archie passed the windows he noted that the
rooms were handsomely furnished. This was not an establishment where the
employees were admitted to social intercourse with the family of the
owner. As Archie stole by, the voices from the veranda sounded remote as
from another world. An aristocrat by birth and training, he found here a
concrete lesson in democracy that disturbed him. The world was not all
club corners and week-end parties. For a few hours at least he was
earning his bread by the sweat of his face--a marvelous experience--and
feeling very lonesome indeed at the end of his day's labor.

"I don't want to stay with papa; I want to see mama!"

A child's voice plaintively uttering this as he slunk round the house
reminded him of the real nature of his sojourn on Eliphalet Congdon's
acres.

"Papa's sick; you must be nice to your papa. You must help him to get
well, and then you can see your mama!"

Through the parlor windows he saw the stolen Edith rebelliously
confronting the tall woman who had been a party to the kidnaping in
Central Park.

Eliphalet Congdon entered the room clutching a newspaper and Archie
heard him exclaim angrily:

"You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Edith. Your papa's just come and
is sick and tired and your fretting's keeping him awake. Take her
upstairs, Sarah, and put her to bed."

As he surveyed the upper windows he caught a glimpse of a woman in a
trained nurse's uniform. Putney Congdon was established on the farm and
though it was nearly three weeks since the fateful night at Bailey
Harbor, he was still feeling the effects of his injury. Afraid of being
caught loitering Archie hurried down to the meadow that stretched away
from the house and stumbled into a flock of sheep.

He left the sheep, rather envying their placid existence, and was on his
way to the lab