Tell me: do you know anybody in Indian Spring who would likely spy upon you ?" The young girl was conscious of a certain ill-defined uneasiness, but answered, "No." "Then it was not _you_ he was seeking," said Low thoughtfully.

Miss Nellie had not time to notice the emphasis, for he added, "You must go at once, and lest you have been followed I will show you another way back to Indian Spring.

It is longer, and you must hasten.

Take your shoes and stockings with you until we are out of the bush." He raised her again in his arms and strode once more out through the covert into the dim aisles of the wood.

They spoke but little; she could not help feeling that some other discordant element, affecting him more strongly than it did her, had come between them, and was half perplexed and half frightened.