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My father and mother and sister lived in a small town some thirty miles from New York, and that was a very good reason for their not coming to the city just to see me sail away in a steam-ship. They took a good leave of me, though, before I left home. I shall never forget how I first became acquainted with Rectus. About a couple of years before, he was a new boy in the academy at Willisville.
I didn't wish to appear as if I wanted to get rid of the fellows who had been kind enough to come all the way from Willisville to see me off, but I couldn't help thinking that it didn't look exactly fair and straightforward not to say that these boys were not passengers until the pilot was ready to go back. I determined to go and see about the matter, but I would wait a little while.
When I saw my father and mother and my sister Helen standing there on the stone foot-walk, as the cars rolled in, I was amazed. I hadn't expected them. It was all right enough for Rectus to expect his father and mother, for they lived in New York, but I had supposed that I should meet my folks at the station in Willisville. But it was a capital idea in them to come to New York.
I couldn't say anything about this, but I asked the purser, who still stood by us. "I don't suppose he'll make any regular charge," said he; "but he'll expect you to give him something, whatever you please." "But we haven't anything," said Scott to me. "We have our return tickets to Willisville, and that's about all."
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