Captain, what do you mean ?" "I don't mean nothin'.

But I shouldn't wonder if the Great Panjandrum and his folks was reminded that that Lane was still open, that's all.
Ho! ho! So long, Ros." I did not catch his meaning at the time.

A few days later I discovered it by accident.

I had been up to the village and was on my way home by the short cut.

As I crossed the field behind Sylvanus Snow's abandoned house, the spot where Miss Colton and I had waited on the porch the night of the thunder shower, I heard the rattle of a cart going down the Lane.