In the Driftway.

In the course of his travels the Drifter often has received hints, if not direct requests, for things which his friends would like to have brought home from foreign lands. "If one should be in Brittany," a lady will say meaningly, and he hastens to assure her that he will not, well aware that a remark about Quimper plates is impending. If it is not plates from Brittany or glass from Bohemia, or something equally breakable and perhaps more spillable from Bordeaux, France it is likely to be books to ballast an already bursting suitcase. The oddest thing the Drifter has been asked to turn up was a long copper key, supposedly of a bride's dower chest, such as sometimes can be found among the junk of the bookdealers along the Seine in Paris.