When I went on deck next day I found a short note from Fritz, in
which he told me that be could not give up the search, but had gone
some way up the coast in his small boat. "Let me beg of you," he wrote,
"to lie in wait for me here till I come back."

When he had been gone two days, I felt that I ought to tell my wife the
cause of our trip, as it might ease her mind, and she now had some fear
lest her son should not be safe. She heard me to the end, and then said
that she was sure he would not fail, but soon bring back good news.

As we were all on the look-out for Fritz, we saw his boat a long way
off.

"There is no one with him in the boat," said I to my wife; "that does
not say much for our hopes."

"Oh, where have you been?" said the boys, all at once, as he came on
board. But they scarce got a word from him. He then drew me on one
side, and said, with a smile of joy, "What do you think is the news I
bring?"

"Let me hear it," said I.

"Then I have found what I went forth to seek, and our search has not
been in vain."

"And who is it that you have found?"

"Not a man," he said, "but a girl. The dress she wears is that of a
man, and she does not wish at first that her sex should be known to