The Search for the Silver City
y the exact date, Teddy Wright was not only a very lonel
to slightingly as "the barracks," and as a reward for the flattering reports sent home by his teachers, had been
e fashionable watering places; but with three long months of "roughing it"
sisters expressed surprise at his choice. "We shall regularly camp out, and father has given me a doubled-barreled breech-loader, to say nothing of h
found that young gentleman so ill that there was no hope
n returned home to the house which had been left in charge of one servant, and, as h
nteen is prone to foolish deeds, and there he stayed in a frame of mind very nearly approaching the s
o spend his vacation at home where he could enjoy the use of a small
o visit Bridgeport, since his trip to the Adirondacks had b
He proposes to cruise around three or four weeks while mother is at Bar Harbor, and is perfectly willing I should invite you
ay afternoon, therefore Teddy had
he substance of what Neal had written, and asked permiss
ill-humor having vanished, for a cruise on a steam yacht promised quite as great pleasure as had the stay in the woods, with not so much certainty of hard work. Neal met him at the depot, and afteciate the beauty of the little craft while she swung lazily to and fro at her cable
in's boat, and the boys went on board where, during the remainder of
her side, and in one of these Neal had already stored su
ish as to carry your baggage up to the house. If it was with us we would
it down," Teddy replied with a laugh. "I
hall feel more at home
the sailors instructed to remain
do, and having received permission to occupy the quarters slightly in advance of sailing tim
years," Teddy said as he threw hi
long the cruise would really last it is very ce
the season, take mother with us, and not come
dy replied, his eyes glistening with pleasur
. He has already promised that if nothi
before us the jolly fact that
in below where it is so warm. Come on deck for awhi
r the awning aft, and Neal introduc
yachting before, not e
n twenty-five years of age, gazed at the visitor cu
h the ocean means, for I understand that Mr. Emery is goi
ssary to attend to not later than next fall, so i
, realizing for the first time that it was more than po
ill kick up her heels enough to show something of what is meant by a l
d the boys remained aft recalling to mind all
art as soon as the owner should arrive, and when the steward sum