SECOND PART.

"FINDING THE GUIDE."



"As often the helpless wanderer,
Alone in a desert land,
Asks the guide his destined place of rest,
And leaves all else in his hand."




CHAPTER I.

"LOOKING FOR THE OLD COURT."


When Jane Parsons left the children, and they found themselves in
that comfortable first-class railway carriage on their way to London,
Maurice and Toby, with contented sighs, settled themselves to resume
their much-disturbed sleep. But Cecile, on whom the responsibility
devolved, sat upright without even thinking of slumbering. She was a
little pilgrim beginning a very long pilgrimage. What right had she