I have reason to think this piece of gold," and she produced the amulet, "is in some way or other connected with the mystery." And she then explained to Leonard all that had occurred in the vault when the coin had been shown to Judith Malmayns, describing the nurse's singular look and her father's subsequent anger.
By this time, they had entered a narrow footpath leading across the fields in the direction of a little nest of cottages, and pursuing it, they came to a garden-gate.

Opening it, they beheld the piper seated beneath a little porch covered with eglantine and roses.

He was playing a few notes on his pipe, but stopped on hearing their approach.

Bell, who had been put to the ground by Nizza, ran barking gleefully towards him.

Uttering a joyful exclamation, the piper stretched out his arms, and the next moment enfolded his daughter in a strict embrace.