"There's a warm supper for you in the oven!" "I've had my supper at Mr.Lindsey's, mother," I said, as I dragged my bicycle out of the back-place.

"I've just got to go out, whether I will or no, and I don't know when I'll be in, either--do you think I can sleep in my bed when I don't know where Maisie is ?" "You'll not do much good, Hugh, where the police have failed," she answered.

"There's yon man Chisholm been here during the evening, and he tells me they haven't come across a trace of her, so far." "Chisholm's been here, then ?" I exclaimed.

"For no more than that ?" "Aye, for no more than that," she replied.

"And then this very noon there was that Irishwoman that kept house for Crone, asking at the door for you." "What, Nance Maguire!" I said.