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each other and Albert Austin in attentions to Lucilla, leaving Miss Austin to the charge of Harold and Herbert, who were careful to make sure that she should have no cause to feel herself neglected. They spent some time in viewing the marvels of the Electric Building, finding the lights giving it a truly magical splendor not perceptible by day. It seemed full of enchantment, a veritable hall of marvels; they were delighted and fascinated with the glories of the displays, and lingered there longer than they had intended. On passing out, the party broke up, the Austins bidding good-by and going in one direction, Croly carrying off Rosie in another, the Pleasant Plains people vanishing in still another. "Will you take a boat ride with me, Lucilla?" asked Chester in a rather low aside. "If the rest are going," she returned laughingly. "I'm such a baby that I cling to my father and don't want to go anywhere without him." "You mean the captain does not allow it?" Chester said enquiringly, and with a look of slight vexation. "Oh," she laughed, "I'm not apt to ask for what I don't want, and I never want to be without papa's companionship." "Humph! I had really labored under the delusion that you were grown up." "Does that mean, ready to dispense with my father's society? In that case I don't mean ever to be grown up," she returned with spirit. "Well, really!" laughed Chester, "if I am not mistaken, my sisters considered themselves about grown up, and altogether their own mistresses when they were no older than you are now; though, to be sure, I don't profess to know your age exactly." "You may look at the record in the family Bible the next time you visit Woodburn, if you care to," Lucilla said, with a careless little toss of her head. "Yon will find the date of my birth there in papa's handwriting, from which your knowledge of arithmetic will enable you to compute my present age." "Thank you," he said, laughing, but with a look of slight embarrassment, "I am entirely satisfied with the amount of knowledge I already possess on that subject." "Ah, what subject is that upon which you are so well informed, Chester?" queried Captain Raymond pleasantly, overhearing the last remark, and turning toward the young couple. "Your daughter's age, sir. I invited her to take a ride with me upon the lagoon, in one of those electrical launches; but find she is but a young thing and cannot leave her father." "Ah?
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