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Esther's second term at the Conservatory ended in June and she came to Harniss for her long vacation. There was to be no traveling this summer. The visit to Paris concerning which she and her uncle had talked so often and which he still declared they should have some day was postponed.
"When we go over there," Foster Townsend said, "I don't want to be bothered with time. You are going to study your singing, you know, and you may have to stay a year -- yes, or longer. If we went just now those lawyers of mine might be sending for me and I should have to come back and bring you with me. Couldn't leave you alone over there among all those jabbering Frenchmen, could I? I guess not! Let me get this everlasting lawsuit off my hands and we'll go in comfort. Confound the thing! I'm getting sick of it. I wish I had bought off Cook in the beginning. I could have done it then, I guess, and saved money."