I prefer to leave the decision with the gentlemen of our party.

Can you go, Herbert ?" "To the family council, mother?
Oh, yes!" "That is well," she said with a smile, "but I meant can you go North with us ?" "For a part of the time, I think; we three doctors can doubtless take turns in having a vacation." "You ought to, I think," said Violet.

"Doctors certainly need rest as much, or more, than most other people." "Yes, they do, indeed!" said the captain; "they are, as a rule, very much overworked, I think." "Some of them hardly so much as they might like to be," laughed Herbert.
"You will be coming home soon, mother ?" turning to her.
"Yes; probably to-morrow," she answered.
He chatted a little longer, then drove away.

The young people presently went off into the grounds, leaving Grandma Elsie, Violet, and the captain still sitting in the veranda, they busied with their fancy work, he looking over the morning paper.
"If you find anything very interesting, my dear, mamma and I will be glad to hear it," said Violet.
"Yes," he said, "and here is something interesting, though far from being pleasant news.

Davis, one of the burglars whom Lucilla caught, has escaped from prison; gone no one knows where, and may be even now lurking in this neighbourhood.