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`` Our visit will probably not be very welcome , '' I continued , `` but I believe it will produce the desired effect . Will you go with me ? '' `` Certainly , '' he answered readily , `` but I still think my plan the best , sir . '' `` Perhaps it is , '' I laughed , `` but we will try mine first , '' and he went back to the field , agreeing to be at the house at eight o'clock . I covered with my hand the tiny letters on the arm of the bench , and , looking out across the broad river , drifted into the land of dreams , where Dorothy and I wandered together along a primrose path , with none to interfere . I ate my supper in solitary splendor in the old dining-room , with my grandfather 's portrait looking down upon me , and Long found me an hour later sitting in the midst of a wreath of smoke just within the hallway out of the river mist . '' ' T was as you said , Mr. Stewart , '' he remarked , as he joined me .