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Rose's direction they climbed down a rocky ravine and, sure enough, found themselves right beside the little tumbling brook. Dolly sat on a rock and gazed upward at the precipice, looking at the very spot where she had poked her head over. "Were we really up there looking down?" she exclaimed. "I can hardly believe it. Oh, what a lovely place this is!"
"Well!" said Fortune, telling her tale with evident glee, "as we went up the blind lane come a little lad running down as hard as ever he could run. `What's ado? says I. `Mad bull! mad bull! quoth he. Dolly was a bit frighted, I think; I know I was. But will you believe it, Robin, he takes to his heels without another word, and leaves us two helpless maids a-standing there.
They entered the airy dining-room, crowding around "Chuck," all begging to be allowed to sit next him, and the argument grew so heated that William had to settle it. "Dolly on one side," he said with emphasis, "and Bessie on the other, and everybody keeps quiet or gets out," and then in a loud whisper to Pete and Joey, "Don't you be makin' hogs of yourselves. No more'n three pieces of cake, mind."
Dolly was putting her best foot foremost, and her ears were laid back close to her head: though that, by reason of the darkness, Professor Valeyon could not see. He and Dolly had travelled this road in company so often, however, and every turn and dip was so well known to him, that it never would have occurred to him to feel any anxiety.
"Don't they often find lots of other things beside wood along the coast after a great storm, Miss Eleanor?" "Yes, indeed! There are people who make their living that way. Wreckers, they call them, you know. Of course, it isn't as common to find really valuable things now as it was in the old days." "Why not? I thought more things were carried at sea than ever," said Dolly.
In an hour's time we had arranged all the preliminaries, and decided upon our plan of action. We then ratified our engagement with an affectionate wedding of palms, and to elude suspicion repaired each to his hammock, to spend the last night on board the Dolly.
Dolly had not been long in recovering from the effect of Caffyn's last act of terrorism; for a day or two she had trembled, but later, when she heard of Vincent as away in Italy, she could feel safe from his anger, and so in time forgot. Now it all revived again; he had sprung suddenly from nowhere he was demanding what she had to say for herself what should she do?
This may have been partly due to the way in which Dolly had overwhelmed the young lady the equivalent, as it were, of a kind of cannibalism, or perhaps octopus-greed which had stood in the way of a maturer friendship with her brother. However, there had really been very little time.
We are all of us apt to think thus generously of those whom we hold dear. "There aren't many women who come up these stairs in evening dress, I can assure you," he said, as they mounted the flight together. She laughed. "And I suppose the ones who do are on their way to see you?" "Dolly, I'm ashamed of you," he replied. "Well, you've made yourself the reputation; don't grumble at it or shirk it."
Of course these discoveries were unconfessed, even to that best bosom friend which any of us can have; yet her mother suspected them, and, with much anxiety, saw all, yet held her peace, knowing that her little daughter would, sooner or later, give her a fuller confidence than could be demanded; and remembering the happiest moments of her own happy past, when an older Dick wooed another Dolly, she left that flower, which never can be forced, to open at its own sweet will.
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