and laid himself out to put me at my ease, just as if he had been the elderly man of the world and I the gawky stripling.\"
Mme. Storey and I smiled at the picture this called up—the great scientist and the gunman! \"What did he talk about?\" asked my employer.
\"It was about the sparrows at first. How they must have recognised that I had a good nature since they came right to my feet. Then he went on to tell me about himself;
and laid himself out to put me at my ease, just as if he had been the elderly man of the world and I the gawky stripling.\"
Mme. Storey and I smiled at the picture this called up—the great scientist and the gunman! \"What did he talk about?\" asked my employer.
\"It was about the sparrows at first. How they must have recognised that I had a good nature since they came right to my feet. Then he went on to tell me about himself;
