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Updated: June 4, 2025
At first he seemed to feel rather badly at the thought that they would all be so far away from him; but he presently got over that, as his father spoke of the letters he would receive from Viamede every day, and how quickly the winter would pass and all be coming home again, some of them certainly himself making haste to pay a visit to the Academy to see their young cadet and learn what progress he was making in preparing for future duty in the naval service of his country.
Miss Rosie Travilla, Miss Evelyn Leland, and Miss Raymond, the Viamede carriage has been in waiting for the last half-hour." The speaker was no other than Mrs. Manton, who had entered unperceived by them in their excitement. No one replied to her rebuke, but there was a sudden scurrying into the cloak-room, followed by a hasty donning of hats and wraps.
"I can't understand how she came to fall," remarked Arthur reflectively. "Nor I," said Zoe. "Wouldn't it be well for you to advise her never to set foot on that dangerous veranda again?" Arthur smiled. "That would be a waste of breath," he said, "while Ion is so delightful a place to visit." "How are they all at Viamede?" he asked, turning to Edward.
Raymond's letter to his daughter, or of Lulu's confession in reply to it; so her story ended with the statement that Lulu had at last submitted, been restored to favor, and was at Magnolia Hall with Evelyn as a companion, all the children who were in health having been banished from Viamede to save them from the danger of catching the dreaded fever.
"Ah," exclaimed Grandma Elsie when they caught sight of their destination, "see those trees in front laden with moss from our Southern bayous! The sight almost carries one back to the old days at Viamede." "Yes; that and the foliage generally, which is of the tropical order," remarked her father in reply; "see, the cacti are conspicuous.
So far as they could learn, the parents of the pupils already there had found no cause for complaint; and, as a school was greatly needed in the vicinity, the Viamede families were desirous to aid in sustaining this should it prove, as they still hoped, a good one.
To her great joy the Viamede carriage drove up a full half-hour earlier than usual; Grace alighted from it with the others, and running to her said, "O Lulu, I'm so glad to see you! And I may stay till school-time; mamma told me so. Grandma Elsie told Uncle Ben to bring us early, and wait here for me till you go into school."
The necessary shopping, with Edward to help her, and the packing and sending off of the Christmas-boxes to Viamede, to the college-boys, Herbert and Harold, and numerous other relatives and friends far and near, Zoe thought altogether the most delightful business she had ever taken in hand.
"I've been all round the place," he said; "and I tell you, Lu, it's in prime order: every thing's as neat as a pin. Don't the grounds look lovely, even after Viamede?" "Yes," she sighed, glancing round from side to side with a melancholy expression of countenance quite unusual with her. "What's the matter, sis?" he asked with some surprise: "I hope you're not sick?"
"And I certainly do not, daughter," he returned pleasantly. "Rosie and I are the best of friends, and I think will continue to be such." It was a gay, light-hearted party that met at the Viamede breakfast-table that morning.
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