CHAPTER X.
THE QUEEN ON THE DOOR-STEP.
We found that Corny had not been mistaken about her influence over her family, for the next morning, before we were done breakfast, Mr.
Chipperton came around to see us.

He was full of Nassau, and had made up his mind to go with us on Tuesday.

He asked us lots of questions, but he really knew as much about the place as we did, although he had been so much in the habit of mixing his Bahamas and his Bermudas.
"My wife is very much pleased at the idea of having you two with us on the trip over," said he; "although, to be sure, we may have a very smooth and comfortable voyage." I believe that, since the Silver Spring affair, he regarded Rectus and me as something in the nature of patent girl-catchers, to be hung over the side of the vessel in bad weather.
We were sorry to leave St.Augustine, but we had thoroughly done up the old place, and had seen everything, I think, except the Spring of Ponce de Leon, on the other side of the St.Sebastian River.

We didn't care about renewing our youth,--indeed, we should have objected very much to anything of the kind,--and so we felt no interest in old Ponce's spring.
On Tuesday morning, the "Tigris" made her appearance on time, and Mr.
Cholott and our good landlady came down to see us off.

The yellow-legged party also came down, but not to see us off.