Leander spun around, and hurried away. As he did so, a black speck appeared over the savin-trees.
CHAPTER IV.
"I REALLY OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN AN ACTRESS."
Carolyn called imperatively to her brother to come back. Immediately after her call, Mrs. Ffolliott appeared on the piazza.
"Caro," she said, remonstrantly, "what have you been saying to Leander?"
"I've been calling him a little cad."
"My dear! How could you? Now he'll be somewhere kicking and screaming, and probably doing himself an injury. How could you be so thoughtless?"
The girl made no reply; but Prudence ventured to suggest that if Leander was screaming at the present moment, he would be heard plainly in the part of the world where his mother and sister were standing.
Mrs. Ffolliott twisted her hands together. "Leander is so sensitive," she said, pathetically.
By this time, Carolyn had started forward to find her brother. But she paused, at her cousin's exclamation: