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"Yes, quite sure, and very soon." This arrangement, being deemed satisfactory, was afterwards carried into effect, and Letta sailed a few days later in one of the regular steamers for England via the Suez Canal. Meanwhile the Great Eastern still lay at her moorings, completing the arrangements for her voyage. During this period our hero lived in a whirl of excitement.
"Hee! hee! ha!" giggled Letta, who, during all this time, had been gazing with sparkling eyes and parted lips, from one speaker to another, utterly forgetful of, and therefore thoroughly enjoying, her own existence.
Mamma always called me Letta nothing else." "And what was mamma's name?" asked Robin. "It was mamma, of course," replied Letta, with a look of wonder that so silly a question should be asked. Sam and Robin exchanged looks, and the former shook his head. "You'll not get much information out of her, I fear. Ask her about the pirates," he whispered.
Besides the original Wright family, consisting of father, mother, Robin, and Madge, there were assembled uncle Rik, Sam Shipton, Mrs Langley, Letta, and no not Jim Slagg.
"Yes, but only for a very short time, dear," returned Robin. "You know we cannot get you a berth on board the Great Eastern. They won't even take you as chief engineer or captain!" "But why not as the captain's daughter or his wife?" said Letta, who thoroughly understood and enjoyed a joke. "Because, Letta, you are engaged to me," replied Robin, with an offended look. "O, yes; I forgot that.
But the waiter did not at that time obtain an opportunity to reveal his facts to those whom they concerned, for Sam, Robin, Slagg, and Letta did not return to the hotel, but sent a pencil note to Stumps instead, to the effect that they had received an invitation from a telegraph official to pay him a visit at his residence up country; that, as he was to carry them off in his boat to the other side of the bay, they would not have an opportunity of calling to bid him, Stumps, a temporary farewell; that he was to make himself as happy as he could in Bombay during their absence, keep on the rooms at the hotel, and settle the bills, and that all expenses would be paid by them on their return.
She always accompanied it with a smile so full of sympathy, interest, and urbanity, that it became doubly significant on her lips. Letta was precocious.
Letta being made over to the care of the hostess, was forthwith installed as assistant nurse to the white baby, whom she already regarded as a delicious doll so readily does female nature adapt itself to its appropriate channels. Not less readily did Jim Slagg adapt himself to one of the peculiar channels of man's nature.
"It seems to me," said Robin to Letta one day when they were out on a ramble together, "that this is quite a little paradise." "I don't know what paradise is like," said the child. "Well, no more do I," returned Robin, with a laugh, "but of course everybody understands that it is the place where everything is perfect, and where happiness is complete."
His soul lifted at the sound of the gay voice in which she asked, "Did you get my letta?" and it seemed for the instant as if there could be no trouble that their love could not overcome. "Yes," he said, and he put his arms around her, but with a provisionality in his embrace which she subtly perceived. "And what did you think of it?" she asked. "Did you think I was silly?"
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