"If you'll stop and explain matters, I'll go down the lonning.

It was a glorious adventure! Good-night!" She stole away round the corner of the wall and Kit, who understood that he was, so to speak, to cover her retreat, waited until the two women came up.

The one who carried the lantern was fat and homely; the other was slender and looked like Janet Bell.
"It's Kit, an' stane-boat stucken in t' wa'!" said the first as she held up the light "But where's team?
An' hoo did you get here?
There's nea road this way." Kit laughed.

"It's lucky I left the horses at the top.

This is a new plan for bringing down the peat and it certainly works, although next time we must try to stop a little sooner." Mrs.Creighton asked him some questions before she understood what had happened.