The Dugdale Millions — page 281: what you’re looking at

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IN IMMINENT PERIL. 272 “Vou have loitered so long,’’ said Wallis, endeavor- ing to conceal her own confusion, ‘‘and it is growing so late, I fear we cannot go on the water.”’ ‘Oh, yes, we can,’’ interposed Merrimount. ‘“‘If it is only for a short pull.”’ ‘Well, then, let us go at once,’’ said Wallis, walking off in the direction of the steps with Merrimount. ‘*But, Bessie,’’ suddenly cried Dick, ‘‘you have no wrap with you. You cannot go on the river without one.”’ sl left it on the veranda,”’ replhed Bessie““‘but never mind. I will not need it.”’ ‘*But indeed you will,’’ persisted Dick; ‘‘go on with Merrimount and Wallis, and I will run back to the house for it.’’ Before Bessie could interpose an objection, he was off and away. She therefore joined the other two, and together the three descended the steps that led to the water's edge. The boat was in readiness for them at the beach, and in charge of the man who was the one Dick had supposed he had seen more than once in the compan- lonship of Ransom. He got up from the stone upon ] which he was sitting and, taking off his cap, said to Bessie: ‘‘Am I to go with you?”’ Bessie told him that the gentlemen would row, Saying that he would be back to take care of the boat when they returned, the man walked away up the shore. Wallis had wandered to the rocks in the direction of the railroad track, and was now descend- ing to the level of the track itself. Merrimount called the warning after her, that she might find some cars on the Ime, as he termed it. By this time she had reached the tracks, and she called back for Bessie and Merrimount to come down, that she had a sight to show them. Bessie and the young nobleman followed her. She pointed out to them the headlight of a locomotive just entering the other end of the tunnel. It was running Comicboolkk<s C@ 3}