Elsie at once said she must go to him, she could not let him die for lack of good nursing.

So grandpa and mamma consented to her going with Edward and our faithful old Ben--papa's foster-brother and body-servant, who travelled for years with him in Europe--for protectors.
"Of course she took a maid too, and Aunt Louise offered to go with them, but was taken sick in New York, so had to be left behind.
"They found Lester very but not hopelessly ill, and the joy of seeing them had an excellent effect.

So they were married, Cousin Donald.

Just think how sad for poor Elsie! away from mamma and all of us except Edward!" "It was sad for her, I am sure!" he said with warm sympathy, "and very, very noble and unselfish in her to leave all for him." "Yes; and yet not more, I think, than any right-minded woman would do for the man she loved well enough to marry." Harold and Herbert came in at that moment full of boyish enthusiasm and delight over the arrival of "Cousin Donald," whom they liked and admired extremely; in especial for his fine figure, soldierly bearing, and pleasant, kindly manner.
They had hardly done shaking hands with him and Captain Raymond, to whom their grandfather introduced them with a look of paternal pride, when their mother and "Grandma Rose" returned to the drawing-room, and dinner was announced..