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CHARACTERS

David MacRoss--He lives in the country, but has been known to leave it, rather often. Wherever he is, he carries a notebook.

Ross Collins--She knows nothing of the country, and cares less. Why should she? She has a tremendous lot to do, right where she is.

William and Lucille Drummond--They have taken pains to forget the country as fast as possible. So we don't bother with them much.

Kendall and Ethel Cheney--They wouldn't recognize the country if they saw it. Necessarily this fact narrows their understanding of life, though they would laugh loudly at such an idea.

Madge Winthrop--She is essentially of the Big Town. Her address is one which salespeople note respectfully.

Thomas Thayer--He comes from Maine, but prefers sixty-story buildings and the sounds of heavy traffic. He keeps his origin so well disguised one would think he had been born to the noise of steel riveting. He also carries a notebook, but its contents differ radically from those in David MacRoss's.

Jimmy French--He is as familiar as his senior, Thayer, with newspaper offices, but admits a touch of homesickness now and then for Wisconsin.

Hester MacRoss--She has made a remarkably sane adjustment of her life between town and country. She is a real person--admirably real.

Susan Sylvester--She prefers whichever region offers most excitement at the moment, and being young and gay she can usually stir up some wherever she is.

Eleanor Hallam--She is probably the least prejudiced of them all, in favor of either habitat, because she knows both extraordinarily well.

Dr. Sam Reade--He practises his profession in the country, but has always seen beyond its horizons. He can't be caught by the camera, but a portrait of him is to be found in many memories.

Note.--Notebooks seem to figure over much in this story. They are prying things, and one never knows in whose pockets they may be found. So it isn't strange that parts of the contents of them frequently get printed.

High Fences

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