and Queensferry. The extent of the span between the points

"He must have been a wonderful man--your father!" he exclaimed.

The boy turned, his eyes luminous with feeling.

"He was--he was perfect! But they--down here--don't seem to know--or care," he choked.

"Oh, but that's because they don't understand," soothed the man. "Now, tell me--you must have practiced a lot to play like that."

"And what else did you do? and how did you happen to come--down here?"

Once again David told his story, more fully, perhaps, this time than ever before, because of the sympathetic ears that were listening.

"But now" he finished wistfully, "it's all, so different, and I'm down here alone. Daddy went, you know, to the far country; and he can't come back from there."

"Daddy himself. He wrote it to me."