CHAPTER I.
The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green
graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The
keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him
regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs. Dodd\'s maid, whose trim figure always
looked well in her mistress\'s gowns, was inconsolable. The Hardins were
in America. Raby was aristocratically gouty; Mrs. Raby, religious. Briefly,
then, we have disposed of--
1. Mr. and Mrs. Dodd (dead). 2. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin (translated).
3. Raby, baron et femme. (Yet I don\'t know about the former; he came
of a long-lived family, and the gout is an uncertain disease.)
We have active at the present writing (place aux dames)--
1. Lady Caroline Coventry, niece of Sir Frederick.
2. Faraday Huxley Little, son of Henry and Grace Little, deceased.
Sequitur to the above, A HERO AND HEROINE.