"I should have held the lantern differently.

There, I'll go slightly ahead and light the path better.

Can you see all right, Bernice ?" "Yes," she answered, shortly, out of humor that he should be as careful of Lloyd's comfort as her own.

She trudged along, taking no part in the conversation.

It was a general one, extending all along the line, for Rob at the tail and Ranald at the head shouted jokes and questions back and forth like end-men at a minstrel show.