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Now, Kennie I'm not afraid to call you by the old name, you see, although you have grown so big and manly, not to say fierce having answered your questions, will you be so good as to tell me if it's all true that I hear of your having saved the life of a fisherman last night?"
"That the little girl who was left so mysteriously at our door last night is my sister's child," said Kenneth. "Whew!" whistled the midshipman, as he stopped and gazed at his friend in surprise; "well, that is a wild idea, so wild that I would advise you seriously to dismiss it, Kennie. But what has put it into your head? fancied likeness to your sister or Tom, eh?"
They entered the station, therefore, with some curiosity and much trepidation for it chanced to be an excursion day, and several of the "trades" of Athenbury were besieging the ticket-windows. "It is very good of you to go with me, Kennie," said Miss Peppy, hugging her nephew's arm.
What have they been up to, Kennie eloped, eh?" "No, they did not exactly elope, but they married without my father's consent, or rather against his wishes, and were discarded in consequence. You must not think my father is an unkind man, but he was deeply disappointed at poor Emma's choice; for, to say truth, her husband was a wild harum-scarum sort of fellow, fond of steeple-chasing "
"Deary me, Kennie," said Miss Peppy, in some alarm, "I hope that nothing has happened! You seem so troubled that " "Oh! nothing of any consequence," said Kenneth with a laugh, as he folded the letter and put it in his pocket. "Ha! your lady-love is unkind," cried Bella; "I know it is from her." "The writing is not lady-like," replied Kenneth, holding up the back of the letter for inspection.
"Well I'm sure I have no objection to the horse if you have none, Kennie, and it's a good thing for a beast to be able to save human lives, though why human lives should require to be saved at all is a mystery that I never could fathom; surely if men would only agree to give up going to sea altogether, and never build any more ships, there would be no more drowning, and no need of lifeboats and cork boots or coats, I forget which that enable them to walk on the water, or float in it, I don't remember which.
He scorned all the women of Ella's set, and was bitingly critical of Emily's friends. One night, lying awake, Susan thought that she heard a dim commotion from the direction of the hallway Kenneth's voice, Ella's voice, high and angry, some unfamiliar feminine voice, hysterical and shrill, and Mrs. Saunders, crying out: "Tottie, don't speak that way to Kennie!"
Bucephalus and I chanced to be near the spot at the time, so we managed to pull him out between us." "I don't like Bucephalus," observed Miss Peppy, stirring her tea with her egg-spoon by mistake. "Don't you, aunt why?" "Because he's so big and strong and fierce. I wonder you can take pleasure in riding such a great cart-horse, Kennie."
"My dear aunt, it is a pleasure, I assure you," replied Kenneth; "I am quite anxious to make the acquaintance of Colonel Crusty and his pretty daughter." "O dear! what a shriek! Is anything wrong, Kennie?" "Nothing, dear aunt; it is only a train about to start." "What's the matter with you, Niven?" inquired Miss Peppy with some anxiety, on observing that the housekeeper's face was ashy pale.
Saunders had written "Kennie, six years old," and the date, or "Totty, aged nine" she never tired of looking at them now, and of telling Susan that the buttons on Ella's dress had been of sterling silver, "made right from Papa's mine," and that the little ship Kenneth held had cost twenty-five dollars. All of her conversation was boastful, in an inoffensive, faded sort of way.
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