In the spring Rose took pneumonia and died--a year too late! Leslie was heart-broken enough over it.

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?
As for Dick, he'd had enough of quiet married life--just like a man.

He was for up and off.

He went over to Nova Scotia to visit his relations--his father had come from Nova Scotia--and he wrote back to Leslie that his cousin, George Moore, was going on a voyage to Havana and he was going too.

The name of the vessel was the Four Sisters and they were to be gone about nine weeks.
"It must have been a relief to Leslie.