ks and pictures, heard him, and turned round.

"Got some bad news in that letter you're readin', Kiddie?" he asked.

Kiddie folded up the letter and replaced it in its envelope.

"No," he answered. "It ought to be good news. My cousin Harold is
coming out to pay us a visit."

"That so?" said Rube. "You've told me of your cousin Harold. He's
your heir, ain't he? What did you sigh for? Don't you want him?"

"It was Harold who gave me the deerhound," Kiddie explained. "He sends
his love to her. And she's dead. That's why I sighed. Say, Rube,
you'll like Cousin Harold."

"Dunno 'bout that," said Rube. "Guess I shall have ter take a very far
back seat when he comes along. Why, by all accounts he's even more of
a gentleman than you are yourself, Kiddie."

"That's quite true," Kiddie acknowledged. "But that's no disadvantage,
is it? We both stand in need of a bit of polishin' up before we go
home to England again."

"Home to England?" Rube repeated. "What d'you mean by that?"

"Sooner or later I've got to go back to London," Kiddie told him. "But
it won't be for always, you see--just long enough for you to have a
good look round."

"Me!" exclaimed Rube in amazement.

"That's my notion," Kiddie intimated. "You'd like to go to England,
wouldn't you? And you don't expect me to stay here for ever?"

"Course not," said Rube. "And--and--well, I dessay thar's a lot of
chores you're hankerin' to attend to over there. We c'n easily lock up
the cabin. It won't come to no harm now that thar's no Broken Feathers
lyin' around."

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