do not propose to send her away from you, but to do it in another way.
To send your girl to a really good school will not cost less than a
hundred a year, and that sum I shall be very glad to pay until she is of
an age to leave school.

"Now, I understand that your principal reason in coming to Leigh was
that your son should in time be able to sail your boat. That reason does
not exist any longer, and you might therefore be as well anywhere else
as here. Your brother can look after your interests in your boat, and
you will get the same share of its profits as if you were living here. I
think for your son's sake as well as your daughter's, it would be
pleasanter and better that you were away from here.

"Now I am going to pay a hundred a year for your girl to be educated,
but it makes no difference to me how that hundred is spent, providing
she gets the education. It seems to me, therefore, that it would be
better if you were to move again, say to Dulwich, where no doubt you
have still friends, having lived there for so long. Then you could send
her as a day-boarder in a good school for some thirty or forty pounds a
year. You could still keep her with you, and have a nice home for Jack
whenever he comes back from sea.

"Well, think this over. It seems to me and to Mr. Godstone to be by far
the best plan for all parties. And it will be much the most pleasant to
us; as I should then hope to see you often, and to see for myself how
your child is getting on. Do not give an answer to me now: it will be
another week before my husband can be moved up to town, so there will be
plenty of time for you to look at it in all lights before you decide. I
know that it will be a sacrifice for you to leave Leigh where you have
so many relations and friends; but I am sure this will not weigh with
you as against the interest of your children."

So saying the ship-owner's wife shook hands with Mrs. Robson and at once
went out. Half-way down the street she met Jack.

"It is all settled, Jack," she said, in answer to his look. "Your mother
has agreed to your going."

"Has she?" Jack exclaimed in delight. "Hurrah! Thank you so much,
ma'am," and throwing his cap in the air he caught it again, and then
started home at a run at the top of his speed. Bursting in at the door
he was sobered instantly by seeing his mother in tears.

"My dear mother!" he exclaimed, "don't cry over it. Of course I should
like to go to sea and always wanted it, st