Chapter 9—One and One Make Two
This very morning a hotel—or rather an inn, that of The Sandy Bar and not one of the best—received two travellers, arrived by the first train in Calais, a town in the State of Maine.
These two travellers—a man and a woman evidently suffering from the fatigue of a long and painful journey—gave their names as Mr. and Mrs. Field. The name, like that of Smith and Johnson and a few others in current use, is one of the commonest among families of Anglo-Saxon origin. And you would have to be endowed with extraordinary qualities—to have gained a considerable position in politics, the arts or the sciences, to be a genius in a word—to attract public attention under this common patronymic. Thus Mr. and Mrs. Field told nothing, indicated in no way persons of distinctio
