The cholera would be in the air for miles round.

The journey in the hot sun would make the children sick and ill; and watering-place lodgings were such horrid holes, never ventilated, and full of smells--people caught fevers at them so often.

Valencia was inclined to treat this as "mother's nonsense;" but Major Campbell said gravely, that Mrs.Vavasour was perfectly right as to fact, and her arguments full of sound reason; whereon Valencia said that "of course if Lucia thought it, Major Campbell would prove it; and there was no arguing with such Solons as he--" Which Elsley heard, and ground his teeth.

Whereon little Scoutbush cried joyfully,-- "I have it; why not go by sea?
Take the yacht, and go! Where?
Of course I have it again.

'Pon my word I'm growing clever, Valencia, in spite of all your prophecies.