grandmother was on the lookout for them.

Stineli had to go at once into the house, and her grandmother said
quickly, "Go home directly, Rico, and do not hang around the door
any longer."

The grandmother had never said such a thing to him before, although he
had always been in the habit of hanging around the door; for he was
never in haste to go home, and stood always for a while before he could
make up his mind to enter. He obeyed at once, however, and went into
the house.




CHAPTER V.

A SAD HOUSE, BUT THE LAKE GETS A NAME.


Rico did not find his cousin in the sitting-room; so he went to the
kitchen, and opened the door. There she stood; but before he could
enter, she raised her finger, saying, "Sch! sch! Do not open and shut
the doors, and make a noise, as if there were four of you. Go into the
other room, and keep still. Your father is lying in the bedroom up
there. They brought him home in a wagon: he is sick."

Rico went into the room, seated himself on a bench, and did not stir.

He sat there for at least a half-hour. Presently he heard the cousin