CHAPTER XIX.
Two hours later she found herself alone on the porch with Captain Prescott.
A good deal had happened in the meantime.
Mrs.Prescott had arrived during Katie's absence, a stop-over of two weeks having been shortened to two hours because of the illness of her friend.

Her room at her son's quarters being uninhabitable because of fresh paint, Wayne had insisted she come to them, and she was even then resting up in Ann's room, or rather the room which had been put at her disposal, a bed having been arranged for Ann in Katie's room.

Had Katie been at home she would have planned it some other way, for above all things she did not want it to occur to Ann that she was in the way.

But Katie had been very busy talking to the man who mended the boats, and naturally it would not occur to Wayne that Ann would be at all sensitive about giving up her room for a few days to accommodate a dear old friend of theirs.

And perhaps she was not sensitive about it, only this was no time, Katie felt, to make Ann feel she was crowding any one.
And in Katie's absence "Pet" had been shot.