"It all shows," remarked Miss Barry to the club, "what we can do when we
work in earnest, and also how much small sums amount to."

Simes Badger's comment on the affair was that Aunt Stanshy had shown
herself a Christian, "knowin' as I do," said Simes, "the story of the
Tyler affair way back."

Mr. Walton and his old mother had something also to say about the sale,
and it was in connection with one of Tony's Italian pictures that Mr.
Walton bought.

"A house, mother, in Naples, not far from the water, you see."

The old lady was silent awhile. Then she murmured, "I have seen it,
haven't you, somewhere?"

"Why, yes--no. What is it?"

But the old lady herself was confused about it. She looked at the fair
home by the sea, and then looked again, but she could not seem to
positively identify it.

"And still I have seen it before," she affirmed.

To identify the spot was like trying to get hold of the exact form of a
ship that partially breaks through the fog and then recedes, ever coming
yet ever vanishing.