How long would it take us to get to the bathing-pool just at the bend of the river ?" "Well--not above ten minutes, I should say," was Lubin's answer.

"I'd like a dip myself more'n a little, but I'm not quite sure if I ought to--you see the mistress wants all this finished up by the afternoon, and then----" "But you must!" insisted Austin.

"You forget that I've only got one leg, so I can't swim as I used, and you've got to come and take care I don't get drowned.

'O weep for Adonais--he is dead!' How angry Aunt Charlotte would be.

And then she'd cry, poor dear, and go into hideous mourning for her poor Austin.