"Miss Alicia once said that when I was almost down and out," he said.

"It gave me a jolt. She said a place like this would be like a nest.

Wherever we go,--and we"ll have to go to lots of places and live in lots of different ways,--we"ll keep this place, and some time we"ll bring her here and let her try it. I"ve just got to show her New York."

"Yes, let us keep it," said Little Ann, drowsily, "just for a nest."

There was another silence, and the lights on the river far below still twinkled or blazed as they drifted to and fro.

"You are there, ain"t you?" said Tembarom in a half-whisper.

"Yes--I am," murmured Little Ann.

But she had had a busy day, and when he looked down at her, she hung softly against his shoulder, fast asleep.