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 for Philadelphia did she positively learn whether the voyage was to commence at Watson's landing or she was to go on board at Bordentown and so escape a wearisome day on the creek, where, indeed, she might have to remain all night if wind and tide did not suit when the mouth of the creek was reached.

Ruth's mother began, at the very last, to realize how crudely planned was the whole matter and how little Ruth's comfort had been considered. Was it to save Matthew a little trouble or expense? She began to fear the truth of this and rebelled, and was the more firm in the stand she took after a long conference with Robert Pearson, who urged that Ruth should not go by the boat at all; but, if necessary, then let her go aboard at Bordentown, and so be as little time as possible on the cramped shallop that could afford almost no privacy and but meagre shelter if it was stormy. And so, though Matthew demurred and rudely resented Robert's interference, it was determined that Ruth should go in her cousin's wagon,