It was horizontal rather than perpendicular." "Well, I shall think it over," said Jack.
"Do you know," said his father, "that I have the feeling of having accepted from Rob responsibility for our utmost endeavour to bring it about that, as Rob puts it, 'somehow he shall get back' ?" It was full twenty minutes before train time when Rob, torn with anxiety lest they should be late, marched his brother on to the railway platform to wait for the Camerons, who were to arrive from the North.

Up and down they paraded, Dunn turning over in his mind the conversation of the night before, Rob breaking away every three minutes to consult the clock and the booking clerk at the wicket.
"Will he come to us this afternoon, Jack, do you think ?" enquired the boy.
"Don't know! He turned down a football lunch! He has his sister and his father with him." "His sister could come with him!" argued the boy.
"What about his father ?" Rob had been close enough to events to know that the Captain constituted something of a difficulty in the situation.
"Well, won't he have business to attend to ?" His brother laughed.

"Good idea, Rob, let us hope so! At any rate we will do our best to get Cameron and his sister to come to us.

We want them, don't we ?" "We do that!" said the boy fervently; "only I'm sure something will happen! There," he exclaimed a moment later, in a tone of disappointment and disgust, "I just knew it! There is Miss Brodie and some one else; they will get after him, I know!" "So it is," said Dunn, with a not altogether successful attempt at surprise.
"Aw! you knew!" said Rob reproachfully.
"Well! I kind of thought she might turn up!" said his brother, with an air of a convicted criminal.

"You know she is quite a friend of Cameron's.