"I've always wanted to go. I wonder
what sort of a boat we could get down there, Wally? It would be
immense to go on a cruise, among those hundreds of islands."
"Time enough to think of that when we get there, old man. Then you'd
like to go?"
"I sure would. Tell Mr. Robinson thanks--a hundred times."
"I'll save some of them for to-morrow; it's getting late. Now turn
over, and go to sleep."
"Sleep! As if I could sleep with that news! Let's talk about it!"
And they did--the girls coming up with Mrs. Kimball for a brief chat.
Then the invalid was ordered to quiet down for the night.
Walter, with Harry, who was to remain at the Kimball residence for a
few days, went home with the Robinson twins in their car, Cora
trailing along in her automobile to bring back the boys.
The next day nothing was talked of but the prospective trip.
Walter wired his people and received permission to absent himself
from college, ostensibly to help look after Jack. As Harry had
said, he could not go, but Mrs. Kimball and Cora fully made up their
minds to make the journey with Jack, and close up the Chelton
home for the winter months.
"But what about Inez and her political problem?" asked Belle, when
this much had been settled. "She doesn't want to stay and be, as she
says, a burden on you any longer, poor little girl."
"She's far from being a burden," spoke Cora.
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