He sat staring down over the bare inner edge Of the ramparts, letting his thoughts rove across the sleepy, encircled town, the huddling pattern of Aigues Mortes, a dull red-and - chestnut mosaic in tiled roofs. Then he gripped his carpenter's pencil afresh, bent down, and carefully printed on the mortar.
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Henry Milner Rideout (1877-1927) was a native of Calais, Maine. Author of sixteen novels, twenty-three short stories and novellas, and a biographical memoir, he also was editor of one college textbook, as well as co-editor of three others. Many of his stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.