It began:
"Dear Miss Amhurst," and ended "Yours most sincerely, Alan Drummond."
It gave some account of his doings since he bade good-bye to her. A
sailor, he informed her, needs little time for packing his belongings,
and on the occasion in question the Prince had been of great
assistance. They set out together for the early morning train, and
said "au revoir" at the station. Drummond had intended to sail from
New York, but a friendly person whom he met on the train informed him
that the Liverpool liner "Enthusiana" set out from Boston next day, so
he had abandoned the New York idea, and had taken passage on the liner
named, on whose note-paper he wrote the letter, which epistle was once
more concealed as Dorothy heard Katherine's light step on the stair.
That impulsive young woman burst into the sewing room.
"We're all going," she cried. "Father, mother and Sabina. It seems
father has had an excellent offer to let the house furnished till the
end of September, and he says that, as he likes high life, he will put
in the time on the top of the Catskills. He abandons me, and says that
if he can borrow a shilling he is going to cut me off with it in his
will. He regrets the departure of the British Fleet, because he thinks
he might have been able to raise a real English shilling aboard. Dad
only insists on one condition, namely, that he is to pay for himself,
mother and Sabina, so he does not want a room with a balcony.
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