CHAPTER XII.
AN ADVENTURE.
That Katy should go with Albert to see the cousins at Glenfield was a matter easily brought about.

Plausaby, Esq., was so desirous of Albert's absence that he threw all of Mrs.Plausaby's influence on the side of the arrangement which Charlton made a _sine qua non_.

Albert felt a little mean at making such a compromise of principle, and Plausaby felt much as a man does who pays the maker of crank-music to begone.

He did not like Katy's going; he wanted to further her marriage with so influential a person as Smith Westcott, the agent in charge of the interests of Jackson, Jones & Co., who not only owned the Emporium, but were silent partners in the town-site.

But Katy must go.