"We will be happy to have you take breakfast here with us, and we may as well be on our way across the lake while eating.

Then I hope to have you at your destination by seven or eight in the evening, and, leaving you there, steam on down the river and up the lake, the rest of my passengers resting in their berths as usual." "Then it will take about all of the next day to get to Mackinaw, won't it, papa ?" asked Grace.
"Probably." "And how long will we stay there ?" "I suppose that will depend upon how we enjoy ourselves.

I think it likely you will all be satisfied with a day or two, as there is so much that will interest you here which you have not yet seen." "Cousin Annis," said Violet, "would you not be willing to make one of our party?
I am sure that with a little crowding we could accommodate you very easily." "Thank you very much, cousin," replied Annis, "but I fear my company would not repay you for the necessary crowding." At that several voices exclaimed that it certainly would; the young girls adding that they could crowd a little closer together without feeling it any inconvenience, and the captain saying laughingly that impromptu beds would have to be provided in the saloon for Chester and Frank, and he would join them there, so leaving a vacant place for her with his wife; and with a little more persuasion Annis accepted the invitation, knowing that she could be well spared for a time from the large circle of brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces: the dear old father and mother having been taken, some years before, to their heavenly home.
"I wish we could take Cousin Arthur, Marian, and Hugh with us," said Violet; "though they are not here to-night, they must still be in the city, I think." "Yes," said her husband, "and I think we might manage to accommodate them also, should they care to go; but probably they will prefer having that much more time to spend at the Fair." It was a beautiful moonlight evening, and after a little more chat in regard to the arrangements to be made for the morrow's journey, all except the children, who were already in bed, went together to the Court of Honor: from there to the Midway Plaisance, then to the Ferris Wheel, in which everyone was desirous to take a ride by moonlight; nor were they by any means disappointed in it.
On leaving the Wheel they bade each other good-night and scattered to their several resting places--the cousins to their boarding-house, the others to the yacht.
A little before eight o'clock the next morning there was a cheerful bustle on board the _Dolphin_.

The extra passengers arrived safely and in good season, with their luggage, and found everything on the boat in good trim, and an excellent breakfast awaiting them and the others.
The weather was all that could be desired; they were congenial spirits, and the day passed most delightfully.

But though the young people were very sociable, no one seeming to be under any restraint, neither Chester nor Percy found an opportunity for any private chat with Lucilla.