"For you, Cora, from Uncle Fabian! There is a foreign mail just in."
"Give it to me."
Sylvan handed her the letter, Cora opened it, glanced over it, and exclaimed:
"Uncle Fabian says that he will be home the last of this month."
CHAPTER XVIII.
A CRISIS AT ROCKHOLD.
Brother and sister went to Newport and spent a month. The Dean of Olivet was in the town, but they never met him because they never went into society. Toward the last of June, Corona proposed that they should go at once to Rockhold.
The next morning brother and sister took the early train for New York. On the morning of the second day they took the express train for Baltimore, where they stopped for another night. And on the morning of the third day they took the early train for North End, where they arrived at sunset. They went to the hotel to get dinner and to engage the one hack of the establishment to take them to Rockhold.
Almost the first man they met on the hotel porch was Mr. Clarence, who rushed to meet them.