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The Ripper was overhauled, a plentiful cargo of provisions and supplies had been stowed aboard, and, having bid good-bye to their friends, the Seaburys, the boys were ready for their cruise. "When will you come back?" asked Rose, as she and her sisters went down to the dock to see the party off. "When we find the derelict," answered Jerry. "Good luck!" said Nellie.
"We thought of starting at the end of this week," and he explained how they hoped the destination of the scientist would be such that they might visit the Seaburys. "That locality suits me all right," declared Mr. Snodgrass. "I am not particular where I go, as long as I can get a specimen of a horned toad, and some web-footed lizards.
He assumed, you know, if I wasn't in Boston I'd gone to the Seaburys'. So he wrote there." "What's he want?" Nan hesitated a moment. Then she said: "It's a pretty serious letter, Rookie. I suppose it's a love-letter." "Don't you know?" "Yes, I suppose I know. But it's so childish. He's furious, then he's almost on his knees begging, and then he goes back to being mad again. Rookie, he's so young."
I couldn't have the Seaburys started up. I couldn't have you get into the papers." "Into the papers!" said Nan. "Heavens! I suppose if I'm not in at curfew I'm to be arrested." "I let her go," repeated Dick. "But I knew as well as I wanted to you'd doubled back here and you were with him."
There was a little wharf, at which the Seaburys kept a couple of rowboats, and, as six were too many to go into one craft, Nellie and Jerry occupied the smaller, while Bob and Ned, Olivia and Rose, got into the other. "Where shall we go?" asked Ned. "Oh, row around anywhere," replied Jerry. "We'll have to get used to oars, we haven't handled 'em in quite a while."
The door banged and Raven was alone. The next day Nan telephoned Raven that she was taking train for New York for perhaps a week's stay with the Seaburys. These were her nearest relatives, cousins at a remove Raven never really untangled, and of late they had been spending persuasive energy in trying to induce her to live with them.
Nan honestly liked the cousins, in a casual way, though it was as inconceivable to her that the Boston house might be given up as it would have been to Aunt Anne. There was, she felt, again in Aunt Anne's way, a certain continuity of things you didn't even think of breaking. Now she was seeking the Seaburys for reasons of her own.
Whence spring the Samuels and the Davids, whence a Leonidas and a Markos Bozzaris, whence the Scipios and the Gracchi, whence the Augustines and the Chrysostoms, whence the Alfreds and the Gladstones, whence the Washingtons and the Lincolns, whence the Seaburys and the Doanes, and many another? Are they not all hewn from the quarries of a noble motherhood?
"My friend says the vicinity of San Felicity, where you are going to call on the Seaburys, is a grand place for horned toads. Come, we will start at once." They found, however, that they would have to wait until the next day for a train. They started early the following morning, traveling through a stretch of country where it seemed as if it was always summer.
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