If you find it is growing hot,
you move about a quarter of a mile to another place
higher up. If you find that hot, why you have another
house a little higher. Don't you see? Then, when winter
comes, you move down."
"Are there many people there?" asked Haliburton; "and
do they make many calls?"
"There are a good many people, but they are a gentle
set. They never quarrel. They are a little too high up
for the revolutions, and there is something
tranquillizing about the place; they seldom die,
none are sick, need no aguardiente, do what the head of
the village tells them to do--only he never has any
occasion to tell them. They never make calls."
"I like that," said Ingham. That patriarchal system
is the true system of government."
"Where is this place?" said Anna, incredulously.
"I have been trying to remember all day, but I can't.
It is in Mexico, I know. It is on this side of Mexico.
It tells all about it in an old `Harper'--oh, a good many
years ago--but I never bound mine; there are always one
or two missing every year. I asked Fausta to look for
it, but she was busy. I thought," continued poor Felix,
a little crestfallen, "one of you might remember."
No, nobody remembered; and nobody felt much like
going to the public library to look, on Carter's rather
vague indications. In fact, it was a suggestion of
Haliburton's that proved more popular.
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