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Gracie was shocked, "Lulu!" she said, just ready to cry, "how can you say such things? I just know nothing will ever make papa quit loving us. Can't he love us and the new baby too? and can't mamma?" "Well, you'll see!" returned Lulu wisely. There was no time for anything more; the good-bys were said, they were helped into the Ion carriage, waiting at the door, and driven rapidly homeward.
Then Ion gathered all the Princes of Delphi together, and told them that the strange woman, the daughter of Erechtheus, had plotted his death by poison. And the sentence of the Princes was that she should be cast down from the rock on which their city was built, because she had sought to slay with poison the minister of the god.
But a treaty afterward concluded with the Eleusinians confirmed the ascendency of Athens, and, possibly, by a religious ceremonial, laid the foundation of the Eleusinian mysteries. Upon the dim and confused traditions relative to Ion, the wildest and most luxuriant speculations have been grafted prolix to notice, unnecessary to contradict.
"And that must not be; we will all go, and I trust will have a very pleasant time," the captain said, rising and taking a hand of each to lead them down to the breakfast-room, for the bell was ringing. At Ion the family were gathering about the table to partake of their morning meal.
But Cimon, as Critias says, preferring the safety of Lacedaemon to the aggrandizement of his own country, so persuaded the people, that he soon marched out with a large army to their relief. Ion records, also, the most successful expression which he used to move the Athenians. "They ought not to suffer Greece to be lamed, nor their own city to be deprived of her yoke-fellow."
They were silent for a moment; then Elsie said, as if struck by a sudden thought, "Annis, why should not you and your father and mother go home with us and spend the fall and winter at Ion and Viamede?"
She is the dearest, kindest mother in the world; to me as much as to her own children, and oh, so wise and good!" "You are not sorry now that you and I are not to live alone?" he queried, with a pleased smile. "No, oh, no! I'm ever so glad that she is to keep house at Ion and all of us to live together as one family."
He had hoped to spend Christmas with his children, but that was now clearly impossible, as he sadly owned to himself, for he was a loving father and felt the disappointment keenly on both his own account and theirs. There would be no festivities at Ion this year, bereavement was still too recent with themselves, too imminent with those very near by the ties of kindred.
Harold and Herbert had come over on horseback, Rosie and Evelyn in the Ion carriage. They came running in with their "Merry Christmases and Happy New Years," to receive a return in kind.
"Go to the schoolroom now, daughters, and look over your lessons for the day," he said, presently, addressing Lulu and Grace. They obeyed instantly, and as they left the room a servant came in with a note from Violet's mother, which he handed to his mistress, saying one of the Ion servants had just brought it.
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