CHAPTER TWOI ought to explain April Harbor a little, in view of what happened there later, although the papers carried maps of it for days. Most of the things they said about it weren’t true, however. Nobody there is fabulously wealthy, for instance, or ever was, and we don’t have armed guards to protect us from the natives who burn down our garages.
Actually April Harbor Colony is a group of people most of whom have grown up together in the summers there, merely by the accident of their fathers’ and mothers’ having bought part of the old Lloyd estate on the bay, which was called Poplar Hill. My father had been chiefly interested because he wanted me to be some place near Alice Gould during vacations, after Mother died. Rodman Bishop came in later for much the same kind of reason, althoug
