"It was at an inn," he said, "this morning, as we were coming back from the forest.

But she seemed so much better then, Mackay knew her; why, I heard him say...." He glanced back at the sudden recollection.

The two girls were speaking to the two others, twenty paces or so behind.

"Oh," he exclaimed, "look here!..." The tall Labour man slipped his arm in his and interrupted.

"Come on, padre," he said; "you can't do anything.