"You could telegraph, couldn't you, papa?" asked Lucilla. "But perhaps the repairs you said she needed are not finished yet?"
"I think they must be," returned the captain pleasantly. "Perhaps we may get some news in regard to her to-day."
"And if the repairs are finished, will you send for her?" asked
Violet.
"In case they are, I see no reason why we should not have the use of her," was the rather non-committal reply.
CHAPTER II.
A half-hour later nearly the whole company returned to the front porch as the most attractive spot, since from it was a very fine view of the broad river and its opposite shore.
"Oh," shouted several young voices, "there's our flag! There's Old
Glory!"
"And it must be on a boat down close to the landing," added Edward
Leland. "May I run down and see, papa?"
"I think you could see quite as well from the summer-house out yonder on the edge of the cliff," replied Mr. Leland, starting for that place himself, followed by most of the others.
"Why it's the Dolphin, the Dolphin!" exclaimed several voices simultaneously, as they reached the arbor and caught sight of the pretty craft in the river below.