CHAPTER VI.
TOWARD THE WESTERN STARS Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
-- _Lay of the Last Minstrel_.
Geneva is a good point from which to plan flight to any part of the world, for there at the top of Europe the whole continental railway system is easily within your grasp, and you may make your choice of sailing ports.

It is, to be sure, rather out of your way to seek a ship at Liverpool unless you expect to gain some particular advantage in doing so.

Mr.John Armitage hurried thither in the most breathless haste to catch the _King Edward_, whereas he might have taken the _Touraine_ at Cherbourg and saved himself a mad scamper; but his satisfaction in finding himself aboard the _King Edward_ was supreme.

He was and is, it may be said, a man who salutes the passing days right amiably, no matter how somber their colors.
Shirley Claiborne and Captain Richard Claiborne, her brother, were on deck watching the shipping in the Mersey as the big steamer swung into the channel.
"I hope," observed Dick, "that we have shaken off all your transatlantic suitors.

That little Chauvenet died easier than I had expected.