This had gone on until the acquaintance had practically ended,
except when they met on the trains or in crossing the ferry. Then
again, Ruth and her father lived at one end of the village known
as Corklesville, and Garry and Corinne lived at the other end,
known as Elm Crest, the connecting link being the railroad, a fact
which Jack told Garry with a suggestive laugh, made them always
turn their backs on each other when they parted to go to their
respective homes, to which Garry would reply that it was an
outrage and that he was coming up that very night--all of which he
failed to do when the proposed visit was talked over with Corinne.
None of this affected Jack. He would greet Corinne as
affectionately and cordially as he had ever done. He had taken her
measure years before, but that made no difference to him, he never
forgetting that she was his uncle's nominal daughter; that they
had been sheltered by the same roof and that she therefore in a
way belonged to his people. Moreover, he realized, that like
himself, she had been compelled to give up many of the luxuries
and surroundings to which she had been accustomed and which she
loved,--worthless now to Jack in his freedom, but still precious
to her.
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