In the meantime, our business is to follow them into Glasgow, where they arrive in little more than a couple of hours.
On reaching her uncle's with her companion, Jane was greatly disappointed and rather surprised, to learn from one of her little cousins—its mother being out of the way at the moment—that Davidson was not at home, that he had gone to the country on the previous night, and had not yet returned.
"Then where's your brother;" inquired Jane.
"He's gone to the country, too," said the child.
"Is he with your father?"
"Yes."
"Did he go last night also?"
"Yes."
"And don't you know where they went to, or when they will be home?"
The child could not tell.