usehold. Mr. Leslie would be able to go down
with his family to Kingshaven; but was to leave them there and return to
business, making his home for the time at a married sister's house in
Rosehampton. So everything seemed promising; and even Mrs. Leslie,
naturally of a most anxious and troubled disposition, set off with hardly
a cloud on her horizon.

Harry had been very active in helping his mother all the day before the
departure, and once when carrying a heavy box down from the attics he had
felt it bump heavily against his knee; but being a brave little boy, he
said and thought nothing about it at the time. All through the afternoon
and night, however, a strange, dull pain in the knee haunted him. He did
not tell anybody, but he wished frequently it would go away before he got
to Kingshaven. There stood the _Rover_, all nicely packed and ready for
the railway journey, and Harry's heart beat high when he thought how soon
he should see it riding proudly on the waves--the admired of all
beholders.

Harry wakened early on the Saturday morning that had been fixed for their
journey with this bright vision before his eyes; but a sudden shoot of
pain, as he moved his knee, made him fall back on his pillow and almost
scream for help. He controlled himself, however, and began to examine
again the wounded spot. There was a swelling; but the blue and black
marks he had seen last night were nearly gone. The thing had rather too
white a look; but Harry took this for a good sign, and hoped it would be
all right before long. He got up and dressed, slowly and with
difficulty, and still concealed even from his mother's sharp eyes that
anything was wrong. Walter came round early, and in time the whole party
were off.

After a long but pleasant journey they reached the busy little sea-side
resort of Kingshaven--a brisk, rising town, greatly patronized by
families in search of bathing and safe boating and other marine
enjoyments. Briery Cottage, which Mrs. Leslie had hired for the month,
was very satisfactory in every way but one. It stood so far up in the
town and in such a position that no view of the sea whatever, not even
the tiniest bit, was to be obtained from its windows. That was a
drawback certainly; and as they had only chosen it from an advertisement,
they had not taken this point into consideration. It could not be helped
now.

"Well, it does not much matter, after all," said Mrs. Leslie. "You
children wi