Her father saw her safely there, then left her for a
fortnight; their fears in regard to Jackson having been allayed by the
news that he had been again arrested for burglary, and Lucy and her
husband promising to guard their precious charge with jealous care.
At the end of the fortnight Mr. Dinsmore returned for his daughter, and
they went on together to Lansdale to visit Miss Stanhope.
Elsie had set her heart on having her dear old aunt spend the fall and
winter with them in the "sunny South," and especially on her being present
at the wedding; and Miss Stanhope, after much urging and many
protestations that she was too old for such a journey, had at last
yielded, and given her promise, on condition that her nephew and niece
should come for her, and first spend a week or two in Lansdale. She
entreated that Mr. Travilla and his mother might be of the party. "He was
a great favorite of hers, and she was sure his mother must be a woman in a
thousand."
They accepted the kindness as cordially as it was proffered; met the
others at the nearest point of connection, and all arrived together.
It was not Lottie King who met them at the depot this time, but a
fine-looking young man with black moustache and roguish dark eye, who
introduced himself as Harry Duncan, Miss Stanhope's nephew.
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