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To understand his face we must trace the period between his
arrival and the moment this story begins.


CHAPTER IV.
BEGINNINGS.

How far Watts was confining himself to facts in the foregoing dialogue
is of no concern, for the only point of value was that Peter was
invited, without regard to whether Watts first asked Mr. Pierce, or Mr.
Pierce first asked Watts. A letter which the latter wrote to Miss
Pierce, as soon as it was settled that Peter should go, is of more
importance, and deserves quotation in full:
JUNE 7TH.
MY DEAR HELEN--
Between your Pater and my Peter, it has taken an amount of
diplomacy to achieve the scheme we planned last summer, which
would be creditable to Palmerston at his palmiest and have made
Bismarck even more marked than he is. But the deed, the mighty
deed is done, and June twenty-ninth will see chum and me at the
Shrubberies "if it kills every cow in the barn," which is merely
another way of saying that in the bright lexicon of youth, there's
no such word as fail.


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