Quincy gave his father the required promise. Florence must have time
to prepare for such a long journey, so Quincy was obliged to give up
the plan of sailing from Boston on a certain date as he had intended.
Besides, he wanted, personally, to see how Arthur Scates was getting
along at the Sanatorium which was at Lyndon in the Adirondacks, and
so he booked passage on the steamer _Altonia_, to sail from New York
in three weeks.
CHAPTER XI
THE WRECK OF THE _ALTONIA_
"Florence will be ready to start to-morrow," said Alice. This was
welcome intelligence to Quincy, who wished several days to spare in
New York before sailing.
As soon as his wife and sister were located at a hotel in New York,
he made the trip to Lyndon in the Adirondacks to see Arthur Scates.
He found him greatly improved, and he told Quincy that he had not
felt so well in years. The doctors, too, were more than pleased with
his condition, and said that it was only a question of a few months
when he would be entirely well again.
When he returned to New York he found that Alice had been to visit
Mrs. Ernst in West 41st Street. Madame Archimbault lived with them
and still carried on the millinery establishment on Broadway, in
which Quincy had accidentally discovered the long-sought Linda Putnam
masquerading under the name of Celeste. How that discovery had
operated to change the lives of many people came forcibly to Quincy
as he sought Leopold Ernst in his down-town office.
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