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Updated: May 28, 2025
As she crouched at the edge of the grove, two figures passed slowly across the clearing, along the bush-bordered path and into the shrubbery beyond. John Ellery was walking with Grace Van Horne. He was holding her hand in his and they were talking very earnestly. Keziah did not follow. What would have been the use? This was not the time to speak.
Halfway across the field they passed along the edge of a bush-bordered hollow. Their skating caps Tom's white, Ruth's blue, and Helen's of a brilliant scarlet bobbed up and down beside the hedge, and anybody upon the other side, in the hollow, might have been greatly puzzled to identify the bits of color. "For mercy's sake! what's that?" ejaculated Helen, suddenly. The others fell silent.
At length, however, the Customs barrier was successfully negotiated; and then Dick in one rickshaw, Grosvenor in another, and their baggage in a third, the two friends proceeded in triumph along the bush-bordered road, over the level crossing of the railway, and so up Smith Street to the Royal Hotel, where they purposed to put up for a day or two, and where, upon their arrival, they joined their fellow passengers at a hilarious second breakfast in accordance with an arrangement made at the cabin table a few hours earlier.
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