She paused a moment shyly at the door, for this young officer, in all the glories of the staff uniform, was a very grand figure in her eyes.
"How do you do, Cousin Jack ?" she said, coming forward, with a bright color and outstretched hand.
"How are you, Cousin Alice ?" Jack said, mimicking her tone; "why, you little goose," he exclaimed, catching her in his arms and kissing her, "you don't suppose I am going to be satisfied with shaking your hand after being nearly three years away." "Oh, but you are so big, Jack, and so grand, it seems different altogether." "You are bigger than you were, Alice, but it does not seem in the least different to me." "Well, I thought you would be quite changed, Jack, and quite different, now you are a captain, and famous, and all that, and you have seen so many grand ladies in all the countries you have traveled that--that--" And she hesitated.
"Well, go on," Jack said gravely.
"Well, then, that you would have forgotten all about me." "Then you are a very bad little girl, Alice, and not half so good as I thought you were, for you must have a very bad opinion of me, indeed, if you thought all that of me." "I don't think I quite thought so, Jack.

Well, I told myself it was only natural it should be so." "We will argue that out presently," Jack said; "and now, where is Mr.
Anthony ?" "I will call him, Jack," Mrs.Anthony said.

"You have no ill feeling, I hope, toward him, for you know he really has been very sorry about the part he took in getting you away, and has blamed himself over and over again." "I never have had," Jack said; "it has been the best thing that ever happened to me.

If I had had my own way I should still be working before the mast instead of being a captain in the army." Mr.Anthony was soon called in from the store.

At first he was a little awkward and shy, but Jack's heartiness soon put him at his ease.
Jack stayed a fortnight at Southampton, and then, on the receipt of a letter from the Earl of Peterborough, went up to town, where he was presented to the queen and afterward to the minister of war by the earl.
A week later he and Graham sailed for the Netherlands and joined the army of the Duke of Marlborough, and served under that great commander until, three years later, the war was brought to a conclusion.