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See Fourth Class Reader for full particulars in verse." The three couples were soon afloat Quincy and Alice, Captain Hornaby and Florence, Harry and Maude. "Let's have a race," cried Maude. "To that big white rock down there," and she pointed to the farther end of the pond.
Harry took the lead with short, swift strokes, but the long, steady paddling of Captain Hornaby gained on him steadily, and to Maude's disgust the Captain reached the rock first, Harry being a close second, and Quincy a late third. Maude was excited. "Let's race back to the boat house. A prize for the first one who reaches it." "What will be the prize?" asked the Captain.
"We'll leave Florence out of it, then," said Maude. "I met him at Mrs. Dulton's reception. His name is Capt. Reginald Hornaby, and he's the fourth son of Sir Wilfred Hornaby, of Hornaby Hook, Hornaby, England don't you know," and she winked spitefully at Florence. "He told me all that himself," she continued, "so I know it must be so.
What shall we do?" "There are three canoes in the boat house," said Quincy, "why not a row on the pond?" "Fine!" cried Maude. "Quincy, you are a man of ideas." Captain Hornaby had asked Florence to go with him and she had willingly consented.
"Father gave him a check for five hundred dollars." "And the Captain's run away and won't pay. Those foreign fellows often do that. What an appropriate name Hornaby Hook is." "He has paid. He sent father the money and said he was going back to England at once." "So, ho! I understand now. My sister has been deserted, jilted, snubbed, and her Sawyer pride is hurt.
Maude found Florence in her room, her nose red and her eyes filled with tears. "Now, Florence, what is it all about?" "Oh, it is horrible," and there was a fresh flood of tears. "Are you sick? Mother says she is well and so is father." "It's all about Reggie." "Capt. Hornaby? Is he dead?" "Worse. I wish he was. No, I don't mean that. But the disgrace." Maude was getting impatient.
But the shame connected with Captain Hornaby is what Florence feels so deeply." That same day Aunt Ella wrote to Linda that she was coming with Florence, and that Algernon and she must arrange in some way to bring about that "explanation." Algernon, Earl of Sussex, and the Countess Linda lived at Ellersleigh in the County of Sussex, not many miles from historic Hastings.
I repeat, Alice, you are doing the right thing." "I do it," said Alice, "for two reasons. One is that it makes me happy. The other is, that believing that my husband still lives, I wish to bring up his son so that he will be proud of him." Florence, after awhile, made a confidante of Aunt Ella and told her about Captain Hornaby.
Alice thought Florence's substitution for Maude, as regarded the trip to England, was advisable, and certainly showed Maude's good- heartedness. When Quincy saw his father he made no mention of the Hornaby incident in connection with Florence joining them on their trip abroad, but in spite of this the Hon.
"I hardly feel warranted in repeating it," said the Lady Elfrida, "as it was given to me in confidence." Later in the evening the Lady Elfrida sought Captain Hornaby. "My dear Captain, don't you think Miss Sawyer sings divinely?" The Captain, with his mind on Col. Spencer and the tenfold check, replied, rather brusquely, "I'm not a great lover of negro melodies."
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