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Rh and toil out of some right pleasant hours. I trust that you have been repaid for your trouble, and enjoyed yourselves as I have. If so, I am glad, and we may at no distant day renew our acquaintance, and in broader fields and other lands seek for grander and more stirring adventure. But, in any event, let us still be as we have been, good friends; and as we part this morning here beneath the madroño tree, let us shake hands all round, as is the goodly custom of the country, and say with reverent sincerity, each to each—!