"Poor Barney! Perhaps I ought to have gone on to Sea Cove and begun my investigations at once.

But Inza was so tired.
She has held up bravely, dear girl, through it all, but this evening she looked ready to drop.

I felt that we ought not to go on until she was rested.

She will sleep well now, since she knows that her father is safe." Something dark moved among the shadows, and a familiar form approached.
Merriwell started up with a low cry: "Barney Mulloy!" He saw the young Irishman as plainly as he had ever seen him.

The face, though, was white and bloodless.