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"'Then I shall call you Lily too, may I not? she said, looking up into my face with a kindly smile, and taking my hand, while her beautiful blue eyes sparkled. 'I am so glad you have come, dear Lily, she continued. 'I do want a companion like you so much! "'Do you find the boys unsocial, then, Miss Vea? inquired Uncle John.
'I feel sure, she said, looking over the side of the boat to me, as I stood on the beach below, 'if we could only get Patrick hoisted up here, we might get him taken home quite safely. "'Ah, but I don't think the doctor will allow you to do that, I replied; 'I fear he must remain here for some weeks. "'He seems very anxious to get home, poor boy. I cannot make it out, said Vea.
"I want you to tell us again of those cousins of Vea Berkley's who came from India, and you haven't even mentioned their names." "All in good time, my dears," said Mrs. Lincoln, laughing; "that is only the beginning of the Bluff Crag stories. It would never do, you know, to have them all told at once.
"'I think he's broken his leg, miss, said Dick to Vea. 'And how he is to be taken out of that 'ere hole he has fallen into, is what I'd like very much to know. "'Do show us where he is, Dick, said Vea. 'Oh, be quick; he may die if his leg is not attended to at once!
"Then Natilie came and called to me to come up also; and there I found Patrick lying very quiet and still on the bed, and Vea sitting by the side of it holding his hand.
'He says he will tell me the reason once he finds himself in his own bed at Aunt Berkley's. I wonder who this boat belongs to. "'Polly said it belonged to Martha's father, I replied; 'she told me so just before they left me to go home. "'Polly, I hope, has quite made up her mind not to run away, said Vea.
"'I'll tell you how we will manage it, I replied, laughing. 'We will ask uncle to go with us. "'But do you think he will go with us? said Vea eagerly. "'Oh yes, I think he will I am sure of it, almost, I said; 'because I heard your aunt telling him she had some important letters to write, and he said he would take a walk in the garden till she was done.
"'Oh, said Vea, laughing, 'Aunt Mary was so cunning about it, she wouldn't tell us a word, but said we must learn our French very fast, and that then Natilie would tell it for herself; and as Aunt Mary said it was far more interesting than any we could read in our story-books, we did try to understand what she said to us very hard indeed.
'I'll tell you where he will be, Vea, said Alfred, on his return to the school-room from a last hunt in the orchard, 'he has gone to the cave at the Bluff Crag. "'Oh, surely not, said Vea in distress. 'Aunt told us distinctly we were never to go there without leave from her, and then only with some person who knows the coast well. What makes you fancy such a thing, Alfred?
She has lost her husband and three sons; and then her only child, a little girl, was drowned one day looking for drift-wood on the sea-shore. "'That will be Widow Martin then, I suppose! said my uncle. 'Her story was indeed a sad one. I am very glad to hear such good accounts of my young friend Patrick. "'And I am glad about it too, sir, said Vea.
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