When he returned from the telegraph office she called to him eagerly:
"Look, Edward, just off the point. There is a steamer."
"But she seems to be headed this way."
"They go up the sound to New York."
"But might she not be the—the——"
"No, Mary; she would have to head out around Cape Cod to make Boston."
"I know, I know, but perhaps she may land him here."
"That would take her out of her course and mean the loss of time. Her captain would not do that."
For fifteen minutes more, Mrs. Hamilton watched the steamer in silence and then she turned again to her husband, and said: