he doesn't feel well, of course, we won't go."

"I like that," said Mitchell, "when it's my day for my party and my cook
all provisioned with provisions for provisioning us all. How long do you
suppose ice cream stays together in this month of roses, anyhow?"

"She is very well," said the maid quietly, "but it's blowing pretty fresh
here in the city and I thought that out on the Sound--"

"Blowing fresh, is it?" laughed Burnett; "well, it'll salt her fast enough
when we get out. Don't you fuss over what's none of your business, my dear
girl; just trot along upstairs and dress dolly, and when she's dressed
we'll take her off your hands."

Jack appeared unduly quiet.

"Do you think it is going to storm?" he asked Mitchell. Mitchell was
scraping his saucer with the thrift that thrives north of the Firth of
Forth and hatches yachts on the west shores of the Atlantic.

"I don't think at all during vacation," he said mildly. "I repose and reap
'Oh's'--from other people."

"If there was any chance of a storm----?" said the nephew, thoughtfully.

"Fiddle-dee-dee," said Burnett impatiently, "what do you think yachts are
for, anyhow? To let alone?" He looked at the maid as he spoke and pointed
significantly to the door. She went out at once and returned upstairs to
her mistress whom she found quite restless to "get-a-goin'" as she
expressed it.

The boxes filled with yesterday's purchases were brought out at once and
Janice proceeded to rubber-sole and blue-serge Aunt Mary. The latter
regarded every step of the performance in the huge three-fold cheval glass
which had been wont to tell Mrs. Rosscott things that every woman longs to
know.

When her toilette was complete it must be admitted that as a yachtswoman
Aunt Mary fairly outshone her automobile portrait. She surveyed herself
long and carefully.

"I expect it'll be quite an experience," she said with many new wrinkles
of anticipation.

"Yes," said Janice, with a glance at the fluttering window curtains, "I
expect it will be."

Aunt Mary went downstairs and was greeted with loud acclamations. The
breakfast party broke up at once and, while Janice phoned for cabs, Aunt
Mary's quartette of escorts sought hats, coats, etcetera. After that they
all sallied forth and took their places as joyfully as ever.

It was quite a long drive to where "Lady Belle" had been brought up, and
they had to stop once to lay in two or three pounds of current literature.

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