Part 19 (2/2)

It was that of the man who had been detained with the boy, and this other, he was sure, was the voice of the far?”

”Of course They'll be up to soet that stuff away”

”No, I wouldn't, h now”

”You're a fool,” carowl ”Anybody but you and that s before theruo back; and take off the 'em round your neck

I could hear you a ht”

”Go and tell 'em to keep a sharp look-out in the cove, and then to run the ht”

”No boat won't coht Dark”

”Then the ht, ely

”It's the farht the listener; ”and there is so”

He wondered what he had better do Should he give notice to them on the cutter?

The answer came at once How could he? He had hly, and the rustling sound seeone back toward the cove

Archy listened patiently for the next , and he was feeling sure that the , when he heard a sneeze at a distance followed by asound, and knew that he must have moved off

Without a rassyintently to make out at last the dull sound of steps, which told that thebarefoot

As far as he could judge now, Archy was in the proper road, and as he walked along he tried to understand as going on, co at last to the conclusion at which he had at first juht if the farmer and his people were certain that they would not be disturbed

As he thought he walked cautiously on, wondering what he had better do, and seeing at last a bright light in front high up a slope, and another away to his right her

A little consideration told hi toward the sea,more to chance than plan, theFar easy now, for as he neared the lights the rew more careless, so that it was easy to trace his movements, which were evidently holo, swing open a door froht, pass in, and the door was closed

Archy stood outside with a vague belief that before long the o was hidden

As he waited he could not help turning his eyes in the direction of the long, solitary house in the patch of woodland, and found hiain

After waiting about a quarter of an hour outside the farhly piled-up stone walls of the district, Archy began to think it was very dull, and his expectations of a discovery or an adventure grew less and less All was very quiet at the faro and peer in at theto see if the farain, because if this were not so he asting his ti without hiarden, and was just going up to the hen the door was thrown open, and he dropped down behind a bush as the farmer strode out