If I can manage to see the girl again the mystery of the cave may explain itself." "Well, what are you going to do ?" Errington looked meditative.

"Nothing at present We'll go fishing with the others.

But, I tell you what, if you're up to it, we'll leave Duprez and Macfarlane at the minister's house this evening and tell them to wait for us there,--once they all begin to chatter they never know how time goes.

Meanwhile you and I will take the boat and row over in search of this farmer's abode.

I believe there's a short cut to it by water; at any rate I know the way _she_ went." "'I know the way she went home with her maiden posy!'" quoted Lorimer, with a laugh.