Andromeda An Idyll of the Great River

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ENTER ANDROMEDA. At first, of course, Bufton thought that his friend was merely romancing, in the light-hearted manner of youth. To convince him that this was not the case, the young man described his adventure fully, expatiating on all the details. ' You'd been dining, youngster,' observed Bufton, when he had heard everything. ' My dear Billy, I'd only had a pint of bitter ale, and I was as sober as a judge. I saw exactly what I have described, and am entirely at a loss what to make of it. Save for the circumstance of the boat, I should be inclined to think that the whole thing was supernatural; but goddesses and water-spirits don't go about in boats, and I'm convinced that what I saw was flesh and blood.' ' Rum affair,' muttered Bufton, ' if you're not lying.' ' I'm telling you the simple tr