for him," said Dorcas Knight, as she took her seat at the head of
the table and signed to the young girls to gather around it.

After breakfast Capitola, promising to come again soon, and inviting
Clara to return her visit, took leave of her entertainers and set
out for home.

"Thank heaven! I have got her off in time and safety!" muttered
Dorcas Knight, in triumph.




CHAPTER VII.

CAP'S RETURN.


Must I give way and room for your rash choler?
Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?
Go show your slaves how choleric you are!
And make your bondsmen tremble! I'll not blench!

--SHAKESPEARE.


It happened that about sunrise that morning Wool awoke In the
cellar, and remembered that on the night previous his master had
commanded him to sally forth in the storm end seek his young
mistress, and had forbidden him, on pain of broken bones, to return