Part 17 (1/2)
”Oh, yes; I only met him once before and didn't learn his name What did he want to know?”
”All I could tell hilish out what kind of man you were”
”You couldn't tell him much”
”That is so,” said Martin, rather dryly ”In fact, I didn't try”
”Oh, well, it's not important,” Jim replied ”Perhaps my books roused his curiosity They were not the books he'd iraph linesman would read But did he tell you lishreed carelessly, but was thoughtful afterwards, and when Martin went off with Jake, stopped by the fire andin the shado and then the flickering light touched her face and he thought she studied hilishe he asked Martin about me”
”Perhaps he knows your relations”
”It looks like that,” Jiirl you met at the restaurant! I expect she was a relation of his Aren't you curious?”
Jiined Carrie was curious, but one could be frank with her, and he wanted to forhts
”In a way, I aain Still, I think it's really as a type she interests ets interesting, Jim”
”It would be ridiculous to think about her in any other way I've had nothing to do with girls like that; she's the first I've met”
”Oh, well,” said Carrie ”Don't you want to learn solish relations?”
”No,” said Jihtful voice ”In a sense, I'm half afraid”
”Afraid?” said Carrie
He was silent for a few moments and then resuot lishe notion that I knew things they knew and belonged to a world I hadn't lived in yet Soot a kind of restlessness that ainst it”
”Why did you fight?”
”For one thing, it's obvious I belong where I a pulls another way, but I don't want to go”
”Ah,” said Carrie, ”I think I understand Still, there's the adventure, Jiland, you could coet back when you leave your proper place Then I have much I value; you and Jake and the boys ork for round I know and like In the Old Country it ht be different?”