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 "Nothing in the world. The gates are the only drawback. Do you mind opening this one?"

"Not in the least."

She waited for him in the farther paddock.

"You're not coming for work, I suppose?" "Well, I wasn't."

"To stay?"

"Yes, if I can be put up."

"No doubt it can be done. But you're a parlor man?"

"A parlor man!"

"I mean to say you're for the house, not for the hut?" said Irralie, judging him by the ear rather than the eye, and not very certain of him yet. "You see, we put up everybody; only the men go to the traveller's hut, and the—the"

"Exactly! Well, I had thought of the house; still, if you're full"

"We are fuller than usual; but of course there'll be room. And you will be welcome to it. But I wish you would tell me one