Chapter 26 THE STILE

That evening as supper was being eaten in the new dining-room at Cloom-a merry supper enough, for all Annie's skeleton presence at one end of the table-Archelaus walked in. It was the first time he had been over to Cloom since the night of the bush-beating, and it was the first time Ishmael had seen him since that glimpse in the light of a lantern