Chapter 21

It was a fortnight before she was permitted to sail with him. In the meantime she had sent off Howard Caldwell and Kirk Bronson, insisting that they were no longer needed. They left reluctantly, yet with obvious relief which they tried valiantly to disguise. One didn't go on well-earned vacations in Europe to stay nursing a fellow clergyman if a way out of such a duty were provided; and they could hardly be blamed. They took leave of Schuyler with great heartiness, many predictions of swift recovery, and a final du…