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CHAPTER
A CHOICE
"Of course, my dear, there is nobody but your Aunt Euphemia for you to go to!"
"Oh, daddy-professor! Nobody? Can we rake or scrape up no other relative on either side of the family who will take in poor little me for the summer? You will be home in the fall, of course."
"That is the supposition," Professor Grayling replied, his lips pursed reflectively. "No. Dear me! there seems nobody."
"But Aunt Euphemia!"
"Yes. She has it all planned," sighed Louise Grayling dejectedly. "Every move at home or abroad Aunt Euphemia has mapped out for me. When I am with her I am a mere automaton--only unlike a real marionette I can feel when she pulls the strings!"
The professor shook his head. "There's--there's only your poor mother's half-brother down on the Cape."
"What half-brother?" demanded Louise with a quick smile that matched the professor's quizzical one.
"Goodness!" gasped the girl. "What a family tree!"
Again the professor smiled whimsically. "Only a few of the branches. But they all reach back to the first navigators of the world."
"The first navigators?"
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