With an exclamation of surprise they hurried into the warehouse.
"My dear Harry," Herbert exclaimed, "how did you get here?
The troops have been searching for you high and low.

Your escape from Reading was bruited abroad a few hours after it took place, and the party at the hall having reported seeing some one looking in at the window, there was no doubt felt that you had gained this neighborhood, and a close watch has been kept.

All your father's farms have been carefully examined, and their occupants questioned, and the general belief is that you are still hidden somewhere near." "I got a ball through my shoulder," Harry said, "in making my way through the sentries, and have felt myself unable to travel until I could obtain some food.

I thought that I should be safer from search here, and believing you were away in the army, thought that your sister would perhaps be moved by compassion to aid her old playfellow." "Yes, indeed," the girl said; "I would have done anything for you, Harry.

To think of your being hidden so close to us, while we were sleeping quietly.