Croly was devoting himself to Rosie Travilla, Frank Dinsmore endeavoring
to make himself useful and entertaining to Grace Raymond and Evelyn
Leland, while his brother and Percy Landreth, Jr., vied with each other
and Albert Austin in attentions to Lucilla, leaving Miss Austin to the
charge of Harold and Herbert, who were careful to make sure that she
should have no cause to feel herself neglected.

They spent some time in viewing the marvels of the Electric Building,
finding the lights giving it a truly magical splendor not perceptible by
day. It seemed full of enchantment, a veritable hall of marvels; they were
delighted and fascinated with the glories of the displays, and lingered
there longer than they had intended.

On passing out, the party broke up, the Austins bidding good-by and going
in one direction, Croly carrying off Rosie in another, the Pleasant Plains
people vanishing in still another.

"Will you take a boat ride with me, Lucilla?" asked Chester in a rather
low aside.

"If the rest are going," she returned laughingly. "I'm such a baby that I
cling to my father and don't want to go anywhere without him."

"You mean the captain does not allow it?" Chester said enquiringly, and
with a look of slight vexation.

"Oh," she laughed, "I'm not apt to ask for what I don't want, and I never
want to be without papa's companionship."