Watch them, good dog, and stay here." "Now," said he to the boy, when they found themselves outside, "what's your name ?" "Percy Rimbolt." "Where do you live ?" "Wildtree Towers, five miles away." "We can be there in an hour.

We may as well use this cart, which was meant to drive you in another direction.

Can you walk to it, or shall I carry you ?" Percy, as one in a dream, walked the short distance leaning on his rescuer's arm.

Then, deposited on the soft hay, too weary to trouble himself how he got there, or who this new guardian might be, he dropped off into an exhausted sleep, from which he was only aroused by the sound of his parents' voices as the cart pulled up at the door of Wildtree Towers..