10/16 So, after you deserted me at Los Angeles--" "You still had Mrs.Montrose and her nieces, Maud and Flo Stanton." "I know, and I love them all. But they became so tremendously busy that I scarcely saw them, and finally I began to feel lonely. Those Stanton girls are chock full of business energy and they hadn't the time to devote to me that you people did. So I stood on the shore and looked at the _Arabella_ until I mustered up courage to go aboard. Surviving that, I made Captain Carg steam slowly along the coast for a few miles. |