into the stream?"

"The very same."

"He made a slant on the wind until he had weathered yonder bit of a barn,
and then he tacked and stretched away off here to the east-and-by-south,
going large, and with studding sails alow and aloft, as I think, for he
made a devil of a head-way."

"Follow," cried Wilder, starting forward in the direction indicated by
Fid, without waiting to hear any more of the other's characteristic
explanations.

The search, however, was vain. Although they continued their inquiries
until long after the sun had set, no one could give them the smallest
tidings of what had become of the stranger in green. Some had seen him,
and marvelled at his singular costume, and bold and wandering look; but,
by all accounts, he had disappeared from the town as strangely and
mysteriously as he had entered it.




Chapter V.



"Are you so brave! I'll have you talked with anon." _Coriolanus._