Would you care to come along ?" He spoke with elaborate carelessness, and looked anywhere except at his guest.

Gavin, not appearing to note the concealed nervousness of his host's voice and manner, gave eager consent.

And at two o'clock they set forth.
They drove in Milo's car a half-mile or more to southwestward along the road which fronted the house.

Then turning into a sand byway which ran crookedly at right angles to it and which skirted the southern end of the mangrove-swamp, they headed for the sea.

Another half-mile brought them to a handkerchief-sized beach, much like that on the other side of the swamp, where Gavin had found the hidden path.