The hard macadam road was no more than dampened, and ambulances and motor-trucks went scooting by as on a city street.

On rainy autumnal days when melancholy oppressed him, when a hatred of his home, the muddy yellow skies, the macadam clouds assailed him, he took refuge in this retreat, set the cage lightly in motion and watched it endlessly reflected in the play of the mirrors, until it seemed to his dazed eyes that the cage no longer stirred, but that the boudoir reeled and turned, filling the house with a rose-colored waltz.

The latter's wife, in a sudden huff, deliberately left them, crossing the macadam driveway in plain view of the stranger.

Men and horses had been pouring down that road for weekson each side of the macadam highway the level, unfenced fields were trampled flat.