It was a whaleboat from Saucelito containing a few men.

As they neared the landing she recognized in the man who seemed to be directing the boat the second friend of Colonel Marion--the man who had come with the Secretary to take him off, but whom she had never seen again.

In her present horror of that memory she remained hidden, determined at all hazards to avoid a meeting.

When they had landed, one of the men halted accidentally before the shrubbery where she was concealed as he caught his first view of the cottage, which had been invisible from the point they had rounded.
"Look here, Bragg," he said, turning to Marion's friend, in a voice which was distinctly audible to Mrs.Bunker.

"What are we to say to these people ?" "There's only one," returned the other.