swinging his monocle around his forefinger, gazing vacantly at the pattern the shadows cast across the hearth. "Avalon!" he said, abruptly. "Avalon! The 'back-to-nature' business, 'grass-cure' and all. It can't harm either Catharine or me, I fancy—or any other pair of donkeys!" [Pg 25] [Pg 25] CHAPTER III TROUBLE FOR TWO A Note Found by Young Harroll on his Dresser the Evening of his Arrival at Palm Beach. "11.30 a.m. "11.30 a.m. a.m "Dear Jim—Everything is spoiled, after all! Father's failing health has suddenly become a serious matter, and we are going to try the 'nature cure,' or whatever they call it, at Avalon Island. I had no idea he was really ill. Evidently he is alarmed, for we have only been here six days, and in a few minutes we are to start for Avalon. Isn't it perfectly horrid? And to think[Pg 26] that you are coming this evening and expecting to find us here! Dear Jim [Pg 26] "Father says you can't come to Avalon; that only invalids are received (I didn't know I was one, but it seems I'm to take the treatment, too!), and he says that nobody is received for less than a month's treatment, so I suppose that bars you even if you were self-sacrificing enough to endure a 'nature cure' for the pleasure of spending two weeks with [me, crossed out] us. "I'm actually on the verge of tears when I think of all we had planned to do together! And there's my maid at the door, knocking. Good-by. You will write, won't you? "Catharine Delancy." "Catharine Delancy." Catharine
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