the great traveler, one of the many victims of geographical
science and of the passion for discovery. Miss Helena did
not belong to a noble family, but she was Scotch, and that
was better than all nobility in the eyes of Lord Glenarvan;
and she was, moreover, a charming, high-souled, religious young woman.

Lord Glenarvan did not forget that his wife was the daughter of a
great traveler, and he thought it likely that she would inherit
her father's predilections. He had the DUNCAN built expressly that
he might take his bride to the most beautiful lands in the world,
and complete their honeymoon by sailing up the Mediterranean,
and through the clustering islands of the Archipelago.

However, Lord Glenarvan had gone now to London. The lives of the
shipwrecked men were at stake, and Lady Helena was too much concerned
herself about them to grudge her husband's temporary absence.
A telegram next day gave hope of his speedy return, but in the evening
a letter apprised her of the difficulties his proposition had met with,
and the morning after brought another, in which he openly expressed
his dissatisfaction with the Admiralty.

Lady Helena began to get anxious as the day wore on.
In the evening, when she was sitting alone in her room, Mr. Halbert,
the house steward, came in and asked if she would see a young
girl and boy that wanted to speak to Lord Glenarvan.

"Some of the country people?" asked Lady Helena.

"No, madame," replied the steward, "I do not know them at all.
They came by rail to Balloch, and walked the rest of the way to Luss."