Been on the cliffs ?" "Yes," said Vince.

"Come on, Mike: it's tea-time." The boys walked on in silence for some moments, and then Vince spoke.
"I say, Mike, do you think he's watching us ?" "No," said Mike shortly.

"You fancy he is, because you've got some cock-and-bull notion that he don't want us to go to the Scraw." "Perhaps so," said Vince thoughtfully; "but I can't help it.

I do think so." "Well, suppose he does; he said what was right: it is a horribly dangerous place, and all the people keep away from it because they've got ideas like his." "Maybe," said Vince, with his brow all in puckers.

"But never mind; we'll go and see.".