ticed
the fact.

"Aren't you most awfully glad?" she asked.

"I don't know," said Eustace slowly.

"Goodness!" said Nesta in a bustling tone, "you've always said you
wanted to go."

"That was when I knew we couldn't," replied Eustace, scarcely
thinking what he was saying.

"What a funny thing to say," said Nesta. "But you _do_ still want
to go, don't you?"

"I don't know," said Eustace.

"Well, you are a queer boy," said Nesta in rather a disgusted tone.
"I call that silly."

"I think I know just what Eustace means," said Miss Chase quietly.
"He wants to get there without going--to be there without leaving
home. It is how I felt about coming here."

"I don't understand a bit," said Nesta, with a shake of her head.

"I do," said Bob. "One knows what one is leaving, but one doesn't
know what one is going to. It is a toss-up whether there is to be
any happiness in the venture. But I prophesy the witch will see to
it you don't want to come back in a hurry. You'll enjoy yourself no
end."

"Why, Bob," exclaimed Nesta in astonishment, "how you have changed!
That is all the opposite to what you have always said before."

"Is it?" said Bob lamely. "Well, I suppose I must be bewitched too.
What do you expect when you will import such things into the
country?"

CHAPTER XIV.

A MOONLIGHT DISTURBANCE.

"Aunt Dorothy's cows" became as great a family joke as "Aunt
Dorothy's lunatics;" indeed, scarcely a day passed that the
household was not amused by some quaint mistake of hers. Every one
chaffed her, especially Bob; and as the two patients rapidly
recovered, the house-party was a merry one. In spite of the thought
of parting with his family so soon, Mr. Orban was in much better
spirits; the cane had been safely cut, the good crop had been
spoiled neither by fire nor the rainy season coming too soon, and
the crushing was well in progress.

"Oh dear," exclaimed Nesta one morning at breakfast, "I am so sorry
you are getting well, Bob."

"Very kind of you, I'm sure," said Bob with deliberate politeness.
"One is always so glad of one's friends' good wishes."

Every one laughed except Nesta.

"Well, you know what I mean," she said. "Of course the minute you
are well you will go, and the house will be duller than ever
without you."

"Very prettily put for the rest of us, dear," said Miss Chase. "I
am sure we feel much complimented."

"I don't know what you mean," said Nesta in bewilderment. "I didn't