CHAPTER X.
"Where's Mr.Hawker this morning ?" asked the younger Miss Worcester.

"I thought he was coming up to play tennis ?" "I don't know.

Confound him! I don't see why he didn't come," said Hollanden, looking across the shining valley.

He frowned questioningly at the landscape.

"I wonder where in the mischief he is ?" The Worcester girls began also to stare at the great gleaming stretch of green and gold.