fellow as that can do! But what have I done with the bobbins? I hope I
have not dropped them. Ah! well! I suppose I did not bring them with me
after all, but I promise you shall have them two nights hence."

"No, Charlie, you must not come near here again for some time, as I am
certain there is danger, and I would far rather wait to see you until
you can come with safety. I feel there is something wrong going on
between my father and Jacques."

"Nonsense, Marguerite; you really must not have these idle fancies. I
shall come over in the evening after dark. You come up this path, and
show the light of a lantern three times if all is well. Then I will
start from our barracks, and come as quickly round the cliffs as I can.
You return to the mill, and go to the granary; I will climb up the mill
wheel. If I remember rightly, the granary window is just over the wheel.
Then I shall be able to speak to you for a few minutes, and bring the
precious little bobbins."

"Halloo! Charlie, where are you, and what have you done with my sister?"

"Oh! there is Hirzel. How he frightened me," exclaimed Marguerite, who
evidently feared everything to-night.

"She is all right, old fellow. Come along, you are just in time to take
her home; I must be off, or black hole for me."

Hirzel now appeared from the midst of the ferns and gorse, and came up
on the path and joined his sister and Charlie.

"The fish won't bite to-night, somehow; _they_ are not so easily caught