Part 34 (2/2)

Yet she did not feel frightened, only excited

At the caves she had only tie breaker fell; and so

'Neil!' she cried; 'Neil!'

Neil was lying watching the flood quite calh it did not concern hiht of Marjorie he looked up in a to his feet

'Is Hamish here?' shouted Marjorie

Her voice was drowned in the thunder of waves and wind

Neil led her to a shted from above, and where the tumult was softened into a dull roar; and she repeated her question

'No, Miss Marjorie, I hef not seen hielythe walls of the little cavern tremble

'Then, Neil, you must leave this at once; the caves will be flooded in another minute, and I've come all this way to warn you'

'Did you, Miss Marjorie? Did you indeed? You came to warn me No, indeed; I cannot let you stay here'

'How are we to get out, Neil? I think the tide is at the foot of the cliffs now?'

As she spoke a strea the floor of their little shelter

'It iss too late to get out that way now, Miss Marjorie,' said Neil; 'and in any case it would be too slippery that the cliffs would be I will pe knowing an opening leading to the moor, where it's not difficult to clies Soon they were in total darkness

The flood was gaining upon thee a word Soled at their heels, and soed ankle-deep into pools

They slipped and scraliht came from above

'Here we are, Miss Marjorie,' said Neil 'If you could beto climb up here ould coerous, and was in sohted Neil, with his sailor's training, swung hi Marjorie up to a ledge, and so her where to set her feet At last the welco the tufts of heather, they drew theround

'At last,' said Marjorie, throwing herself down on the heather, and blinking in the sun 'Now you can go to the lighthouse, Neil'

'Hullo,' said a voice; and Marjorie looked up to see the laird and Mr

Graham, who had come all this way to watch the storm at the Corrachin Caves, and were very asped Marjorie; but Neil drew hiether

'It iss no use,' he said; 'they will be watching wherever I will go, and I hev not a chance'