I often come here and sit for hours at a time.
They like to have me, especially little Jean--the middle one.

Perhaps I'll tell you about Jean before you go away." If Captain Plum had been watching him he would have seen that soft mysterious light again shining in the old councilor's eyes.

But now Nathaniel stood erect, his nostrils sniffing the air, catching once more the sweet scent of lilac.

He hurried out into the opening, with the old man close behind him, and peered down into the starlit gloom into which the two girls had disappeared.

The lovely face that had appeared to him for an instant at Obadiah's cabin began to haunt him.