"I mean for a great many days. Perhaps never."
"Are you going away?"
"I can't tell you. I go where I am sent. Good-bye."
There was a silence. Then, as we stole out, the sound of a single sob. Then sounds of anger. As we emerged from one side Olivia emerged from the other. She made straight for Bobby, where he yet stood on the edge of the bluff, looking silently over the water.
A maid came running out of the house, and went to Jimmy Wales, and called him to the telephone. In two minutes he came hurrying out again.
"Bobby!" he called. "Jack! Come along. It's a hurry call for the Nantucket lightship. We'll go with you, Jack. Just as you are."
He whispered to me as he passed. "Submarines reported off the Nantucket lightship," he said. "All the available destroyers and chasers ordered there."
Elizabeth was standing near, and she heard. Jack and Bobby and Jimmy started on a run.
"Good-bye, Jack," Elizabeth called in a clear voice.