I said
that in spite of his disinheritance I'd help the family out of my
salary, and so he is going to reconsider the changing of his will."
"We will settle the conditions when we reach the Catskills," said
Dorothy, smiling.
CHAPTER VII
"A WAY THEY HAVE IN THE NAVY"
CAPTAIN and Mrs. Kempt with Sabina had resided a week in the
Matterhorn Hotel before the two girls arrived there. They had gone
direct to New York, and it required the seven days to find a flat that
suited them, of which they were to take possession on the first of
October. Then there were the lawyers to see; a great many business
details to settle, and an architect to consult. After leaving New York
the girls spent a day at Haverstock, where Dorothy Amhurst bought a
piece of land as shrewdly as if she had been in the real estate
business all her life. After this transaction the girls drove to the
station on the line connecting with the inclined railway, and so, as
Katherine remarked, were "wafted to the skies on flowery beds of
ease," which she explained to her shocked companion was all right,
because it was a quotation from a hymn. When at last they reached
their hotel, Katherine was in ecstasies.
"Isn't this heavenly?" she cried, "and, indeed, it ought to be, for I
understand we are three thousand feet higher than we were in New York,
and even the sky-scrapers can't compete with such an altitude."
The broad valley of the Hudson lay spread beneath them, stretching as
far as the eye could see, shimmering in the thin, bluish veil of a
summer evening, and miles away the river itself could be traced like a
silver ribbon.
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