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I am so glad you are come; I was beginning to feel quite anxious about Blanche but where is she; I do not see her with you?" "She is not with me, Miss Dudley," answered Lance; "what led you to suppose she would be?" "Not with you! Oh, Mr Evelin, where is she, then? If she is not with you she must still be in her cabin.
"How singularly exact a repetition of the same features you will observe in some families; doubtless you have often noticed it, Miss Lascelles? Now, there is that fine young fellow Legerton, anyone would recognise him as a connection of yours, and I have often been on the point of asking you in what manner you are related to each, other. Am I unpardonably inquisitive?" "By no means, Mr Evelin.
When Lance Evelin sauntered into the hut he was assailed by a general chorus of questions. "What ridiculous story is this which my husband has been telling us, Mr Evelin?" inquired Mrs Staunton. "About the piano, you know," added Violet. "Is it actually true, Lance, that that absurd creature is really going to let us have one?" chimed in Blanche.
"Mary, my dear, come and be introduced to my husband." Beaucourt started when he heard the name, and instantly recovered himself. He had forgotten how many Marys there are in the world. Lady Howel returned, leading her favorite by the hand, and gayly introduced her the moment they entered the room. "Mrs. Evelin; Lord " She looked at her husband.
She had rebelled against it at first, and then, gradually, other interests had blotted out her resentment. Lately she had been playing basket ball every day. Evelin was the only one of the girls watching who was not surprised. "She's the right build," she said, "and I know she's been at it all the time but, of course, she doesn't expect to make the team." "She ought to. Look at that!"
"Oh, how dreadful!" exclaimed Blanche, turning with white quivering lips to Evelin, as the skipper disappeared below; "do you think there really is fire, Mr Evelin?"
Beaucourt at once offered to make th e inquiries which might satisfy his wife that she had not been mistaken. Readily accepting his proposal, she asked at the same time for a few minutes of delay. "I want to say to you," she explained, "what I had in my mind to say to Mrs. Evelin. Do you object to tell me why she refused to marry you? I couldn't have done it in her place."
Well, Captain Staunton, my task is now finished; here is the schooner, fully rigged and fairly afloat; take charge of her, my dear sir; and may she fully answer all your expectations!" "Thanks, Evelin; a thousand thanks!" exclaimed the skipper, heartily grasping Lance's proffered hand. "You have indeed executed your self- imposed task faithfully and well.
"Oh, Mr Evelin, tell me: What has led you to think so?" "I will," answered Lance. "But I hope the idea is not very distressing to you. It is true that the lad's present position is well, not perhaps exactly worthy of the cousin of " "Oh no; do not say that, Mr Evelin, I beg," interrupted Blanche. "I was not thinking of that in the least.
Presently, in a pause, while Daventry was considering some difficult point, Dion remembered that Beatrice was sitting upstairs alone. Her complete unselfishness always made him feel specially chivalrous towards her. Now he got up. "It's tremendously interesting, but I'm going upstairs to Beattie," he said. "Ah, how subtle of you, my boy!" said Bruce Evelin. "Subtle! Why?"
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