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attention, not only because they had been for many years annual visitors of Hurricane Hall, but more especially because<br />
there had grown up between them and our<br />
little madcap heroine, a strong mutual confidence and friendship. Yet no three persons could possibly be more unlike than Capitola and the two cousins of her soul, as she called these two friends. They<br />
were both distant relatives of Major Warfield, and in right of this relationship invariably addressed<br />
Capitola as "Cousin Cap." John Stone, the elder of the two, was a very tall, stout, squarely built young man, with a broad,<br />
good-humored face, fair skin, blue eyes and light hair. In temperament he was rather phlegmatic, quiet and lazy. In character<br />
he was honest, prudent and good-tempered. In circumstances<br />
he was a safe banker, with a notable wife and two healthy children. The one thing that was able to excite his quiet nerves was the chase, of which he was as fond as he could possibly be of any amusement. The one person who agreeably stirred<br />
his rather still spirits was<br />
our little Cap, and that was the secret of his friendship for her. Edwin <img src="cid:exk6ax3fat5HAr"> Percy, the ot
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