I NEVER did see things come so fast as they did for a while there. Have you ever noticed how unevenly affairs run? Sometimes there will be a long, dull, smooth place in your life, the way that Summer had been for me; and then, beginning with the afternoon when I wakened up in the hammock and heard Dad talking about that other girl, things had just been humping themselves right along until it seemed as if the incidents would tumble over one another in their hurry to get into action. Nothing more had been said on the girl question, and I was trying to keep it out of my mind as much as possible. Well, it had been only two or three days since then, and here I was in Chicago, and everything humming! Actually, I felt as if I must be dozing in that hammock yet, and would wake up pretty soon and go out and fix the latch on the back gate.
Bess and I arrived in Chicago all by ourselves; for her father got a message just before he started. that made it necessary for him to go to Cleveland;
