| He wrote at length about Elmer
i Van (Jerg, for whom he seemed to
; have a high admiration — “The
| bother is, he’s interested in too
many things. He takes turns at
them. Whilst he’s riding one, the
others, might as well be dead. Just
as I thought 1 had brought my job
off, his uncle, old Peter Van Berg,
died and left him an extraordinary
lands. It woe while she was at Craig*
ellachie that Jim wrote to say hoi
was in Loudon. He wa3 given a
warm invitation to join Mrs. Ogil-,
vie’s party
Caroline passed quickly over the
time when they waited for his an
swer. He would come—of courea ,
he would come. They would go for
tremendously long walks, and tell,
each other all the things that you
couldn’t put into letters.
If lie got Aunt Grace’s letter on
Wednesday morning he might catch i
the night train and come right j
through. Caroline had gone about
in a queer warm dream of happiness
which it hurt her to think about
now.
Because Jim hadn’t come. He
hadn’t written for three days, and j
then it was just a few lines to Grace j
Ogilvie. He thanked her very much,
and ho hoped perhaps he might be
able to get up later on, but just at
the moment be was afraid he could
n’t spare the time. He didn’t write
to Caroline at all, not until the begin
ning of August, and then it wasn’t
what you could call a letter; just j
halt a dozen lines, all scrawled in
a hurry.
