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She never likes going there, and she may be able to go with us to High Down to-morrow." So it was settled, and they left the luncheon table. Marian happened to be the last lady, and whether it was fancy or not she was not sure, but she thought she heard on Walter's lips, a self-reproachful whisper of "Coward."
He is two years older than Lulu." "About as old as I am?" said Rosie half inquiringly. "Yes; if you are eleven, as I suppose." "Yes, sir, I'm eleven and Walter's five." "If they're good children we'd like 'em to come here and play with us," remarked Walter. "I am afraid they are not always good," the captain said with a smile and a half sigh.
So I tinkered with that and got nothing else done. I'm just after mending a hinge on the boathouse door. A profitless afternoon, I call it." "So you haven't been back to your diggings since noon." "Not a once. Why? Did you want me?" "N o. Oh, no." "That's lucky. Apparently everybody else did," concluded Jerry grimly. So went Walter's quest! Nobody had seen Lola. Nobody knew anything about her.
He is evidently still in search of his lost parent, and following some obscure and uncertain track. Poor Walter! God speed him! The singular fate of his father, and the many conjectures respecting him, have, I believe, preyed on Walter's mind more than he acknowledged.
Walter's father had been a younger son, and for many years the elder brother, a morose and selfish man, had lived at Restlands, often vowing that none of his kin should ever set foot in the place, and all out of a native malice and churlishness, which discharged itself upon those that were nearest to him.
"You'll find all the papers, I think, if you look beside ten pound as he owed me, an' six pound as the wedding cost down here." "Six pounds!" echoed Gertrude Morel. It seemed to her monstrous that, after her own father had paid so heavily for her wedding, six pounds more should have been squandered in eating and drinking at Walter's parents' house, at his expense.
His father was a clergyman, vicar of Winlaton, Northumberland a charming type of the old-fashioned parson, a friendship with Sir Walter Scott in the background, and many little possessions of the great Sir Walter's in the foreground to remind one of what had been. Charlie Kelly, owing to his lack of training, had to be very carefully suited with a part before he shone as an actor.
The next week was passed in preparations for Walter's departure. At that time, and in that distant part of the country, it was greatly the fashion among the younger travellers to perform their excursions on horseback, and it was this method of conveyance that Walter preferred.
"You don't mean to say, Walter, that you have been falling in love, at your age?" "You forget, dear," Captain Davenant said, coming to Walter's rescue, "that Walter is no longer a boy. Three years of campaigning have made a man of him, and, I venture to think, an earnest and thoughtful one. He is, it is true, only nineteen, but he has seen as much, and gone through as much, as men double his age.
"At Saratoga, My father and I spent two months at Congress Hall two summers ago, and as Walter's family were also there, we naturally got to be friends. He is a capital fellow, and you will be sure to like him." "I am ready to like him after reading that letter he wrote you. Is he fond of study?" "That is his weak point," said Hector, laughing. "Walter was never cut out for a scholar.
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