bsence Grace and Mrs.
Hazleton should be their guests, but Sedgwick said with a laugh: "O Mrs.
Browning, you and Jack are good, but you both know that no house is big
enough for two families." And quietly Jack and Rose and Mrs. Hamlin were
enjoined never in Mrs. Hazleton's presence to mention Jordan's name.

However, the difficulty was finally settled. The house Jack lived in was
a double house. The other half was occupied by a gentleman, his wife and
one child. The lady was delicate, and the doctors, baffled by her case,
ordered her--as usual--to try a change of climate. So Sedgwick hired the
house as Browning had his; the servants remained, and permission was
obtained to cut a doorway in the partition walls that divided the two
halls, so that Rose could visit Grace in the morning and Grace could
visit Rose in the evening.

Sedgwick and Browning were almost inseparable during the day-time.
Sedgwick assured Browning that things were working well, begging him not
to disturb either old man Hamlin, or Jenvie, or Stetson, but to "rig some
purchase" after he should be gone, to get the remaining shares in 'The
Wedge of Gold' from them, and also to be sure to keep the former owner of
that mine in the country, even if he had to raise his salary.

He told him also that he expected next time to be absent four or five
months.

One morning about thirty-five days after his arrival in London he
received a cable from McGregor announcing the arrival of the "Pallas" at
Melbourne and saying he would sail again in four days. Then Sedgwick made
his final preparations for departure. He sent full plans for a house to
his brother, with directions where to build. He obtained a promise from
Mrs. Hazleton that she would not desert Grace during his absence, and
from Jack that he would not try any prosecutions to obtain his money
from the old men until his return, explaining that he had made his
arrangements in America, and was then going to see that African mine and
work it if it would do.

His wife knew where he was going; the others except Jack, believed he
meant to return to the United States. He told them he had a little
business in Paris and would this time take a French steamer.

Grace worried more over the second parting than she had over the first.
She cried a good deal and was much distressed. But it was over at last,
and Sedgwick was gone. He did stop over a few hours in Paris, made an
arrangement which he desired to with the Bank