We must whisper in our father's ear that Brother Emmanuel is safe.

Then will he act with a freer hand.

And it were better, perchance, that we were all there to ride back with him when he takes his leave." Julian assented at once to this proposition; and forth went the boys, at first calling aloud the name of their tutor, and then halting, always within earshot of one of the spies, to debate where he could have concealed himself, darting hither and thither, as if suddenly remembering some new place, and ever returning disappointed and vexed.
"He is a veritable fox!" cried Julian, flinging his cap on the ground in a well-assumed tempest of chagrin.

"He must have left Chad altogether, for not a trace of him is here; and I looked to have the pleasure of bringing him ourselves before the reverend prior, to atone for having helped that other pestilent fellow to avoid for a while the hand of the law.

A plague upon him and his cunning ways! Unless he have found the secret chamber our father knows of, and which he once took us to see, there be no other place in all Chad where he can be lurking, unless he has been moving from spot to spot at our approach.