"I'll catch the first train back this evening, Graves. Wouldn't go down there if it were not absolutely necessary; but I have just heard that Mrs. Delancy is to leave for New York to-night, and if I don't see her to-day there will be a pack of troublesome complications. Tell Mrs. Graves she can count me in on the box party to-night." "We'll need you, Crosby. Don't miss the train." "I'll be at the station an hour before the train leaves. Confound it, it's a mean trip down there-three hours through the rankest kind of scenery and three hours back. She's visiting in the country, too, but I can drive out and back in an hour."