Oh, dear! something is the matter." Hazel came across directly.

And they both began to run anxiously to every part whence they could command a view to any distance.
They could not see him anywhere, and met with blank faces at the bower.
Then Helen made a discovery.
This very day, while hanging about the place, Hazel had torn up from the edge of the river an old trunk, whose roots had been loosened by the water washing away the earth that held them, and this stump he had set up in her bower for a table, after sawing the roots down into legs.

Well, on the smooth part of this table lay a little pile of money, a ring with a large pearl in it, and two gold ear-rings Helen had often noticed in Welch's ears.
She pointed at these and turned pale.

Then, suddenly waving her hand to Hazel to follow her, she darted out of the bower, and, in a moment, she was at the boat.
There she found, beside his waistcoat, his knife, and a little pile of money, placed carefully on the thwart; and, underneath it, his jacket rolled up, and his shoes and sailor's cap, all put neatly and in order.
Hazel found her looking at them.

He began to have vague misgivings.