Send luggage to No.

---- street." This news of his aunt's illness caused Edward regret not wholly unmingled with satisfaction in the thought of being spared her companionship on the voyage and afterward.
He read the message aloud to Ben.

"You see it would have done no good if we could have gone for her," he remarked.

"But go, make haste to have the baggage sent ashore to the address given here." Elsie's state-room adjoined her brother's.

She too had been roused by Ben's knock and overheard a part of what passed between him and his young master.