"Sit down here, Miss McDonald.

We are safe enough now in this darkness." "You are all wet, soaking wet." "That is nothing; the sand is warm yet from yesterday's sun, and my clothes will dry fast enough.

It is beginning to grow light in the east." The faces of both turned in that direction where appeared the first twilight approach of dawn.

Already were visible the dark lines of the opposite shore, across the gleam of water, and beyond appeared the dim outlines of the higher bluffs.

The slope between river and hill, however, remained in impenetrable darkness.