The bargain was quickly struck, and then Archie said: "I have never been out on the lake, and would fain have a view of the convent from the water.

Will you take me and my brother out for a row ?" The fisherman, who had made a good bargain, at once assented, and rowed Archie and Cluny far out into the lake.
As they passed along at some distance Archie saw that the shore was in several places smooth and shelving, and that there would be no difficulty in effecting a landing.

He saw also that there were many clumps of trees and shrubs in the garden.
"And do the nuns and the ladies at the convent often walk there ?" he asked the fisherman.
"Oh yes," he answered; "of an evening as I come back from fishing I can see numbers of them walking there.

When the vesper bell rings they all go in.

That is the chapel adjoining the convent on this side." "It is a strong building," Archie said as when past the end of the promontory they obtained a full view of it.