Terrible sponsibility dat!" "It was lonely," the girl said, "and I am glad we are away from it, whatever happens.

What a day this has been! Who could have dreamed, when I got up in the morning, that all this would take place before night?
It seems almost like a dream, and I can hardly believe"-- and here she stopped with a little shiver as she thought of the scene she had passed through with the band of bushwhackers.
"I would not think anything at all about it," Vincent said.

"And now I should recommend your getting to sleep as soon as you can.

We will be off at daybreak and it is just twelve o'clock now." Five minutes later Lucy and her old nurse were snugly ensconced in their little bower, while Vincent and Dan stretched themselves at full length on the other side of the fire.

In spite of the pain in his shoulder Vincent dozed off occasionally, but he was heartily glad when he saw the first gleam of light in the sky.