"I—I guess so," was the faltering answer.
"Cora, look here!"
The girls, who had drawn a little aside at the close approach of the negro, came up by twos, Cora and Belle walking together.
"What is it?" asked Jack's sister, thinking perhaps the man had made a second charity appeal to her brother, and that he wanted her advice on it.
"Look," said Jack simply, and he extended the cap.
As Walter had done, Cora was at first unable to believe the word she saw there.
"The—Ramona," she faltered.
"The steamer mother and father sailed on?" asked Belle, her face pale in the lamp-light.
"The same name, at any rate," remarked Walter, in a low voice. "And there would hardly be two alike in these waters."
"But what does it mean? Where did he get the cap?" asked Cora, her voice rising with her excitement. "Tell me, Jack!"