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The One Who Went Away
what he was pleased to term Holloway's crudeness.
At supper Merritt glanced around as though all at once missing something, and said:
"Where's Holloway?"
Deane helped himself to canned apricots, and answered tolerantly:
"Still sulking, I suppose. He doesn't usually go off the tether like this. I always thought him a pretty good-natured sort of cub."
"So he is!" Merritt answered. "Seems to me you were a bit rough on him, Deane. The sun in these parts has a trick of upsetting a fellow once in a while, and the boy isn't seasoned timber yet. Now about that 'perpetual lamp.' I shall give it to Dr. Peabody, at the Mu-
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