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Nothing," she added desperately, "could happen to Frank between here and the turn-off at the ford, could it? Lone saw him turn into our trail over an hour ago, he said." Sorry, his fingers thrust into his overalls pockets, his thumbs hooked over the waistband, spat into the sand beside the path. "Well, he started off with a cracked doubletree," he said slowly.
I'll try to get the car into a barn so it won't show up at daybreak. We might be heading straight back into the Park!" He did turn, the next time a lightning flash showed him a turn-off beside a rural free delivery mailbox. There was a house at the end of a lane. There was a barn. He got out and was soaked instantly, but he explored the open space behind the wide, open doors. He backed the car in.
How far do you think we traveled after meeting the man?" "Five miles, I should say." "And he told us that the third turn-off would lead us to Lonesome Cove, did he not?" "He did, but he made a mistake. This is Wet Cove." "And a lonesome one, too, even if it isn't the Lonesome one," chuckled Harriet. "Then we cannot be so very far from our destination. I am sure this isn't the place.
Then he went back to join the others. "He 's taken the Center City road!" came his announcement. "Is there a turn-off on it anywhere?" "No." Anita gave the answer. "It goes straight through but he 'll have a hard time making it there in this blizzard. If we only had horses!" "They would n't do us much good now! Climb on my back as you did on Harry's. You can handle these two men alone?"
Nothing," she added desperately, "could happen to Frank between here and the turn-off at the ford, could it? Lone saw him turn into our trail over an hour ago, he said." Sorry, his fingers thrust into his overalls pockets, his thumbs hooked over the waistband, spat into the sand beside the path. "Well, he started off with a cracked doubletree," he said slowly.
And, at eleven o'clock, when the village was in bed, a horse and buggy moved down the Turn-off and stopped before the Hammond gate. A man alighted from the buggy and walked briskly up to the side door. There he knocked and then whistled shrilly. A window overhead was opened. "Who is it?" asked a feminine voice. "Don't be frightened, Gracie," replied the man at the door. "It's me Nat.
It's the wrong turn-off that makes a man lose his way; but as for the rest I had only a dull, heavy feeling that my time was come, and I must make the best of it, and meet it like a man. So the day came. The last day! What a queer feeling it was when I lay down that night, that I should never want to sleep again, or try to do it.
It was a misty, black night, and Trumet sidewalks were uneven and hard to navigate. But she stumbled on, up the main road to the Corners, down the "Turn-off," past the chapel of the Come-Outers, from the open window of which sounded the drone of a high, nasal voice. Josiah Badger was "testifying," and Keziah caught a fragment of the testimony as she hurried by.
The trail goes only part way down this slide, then tacks across to Keyhole. In the storm she could not distinguish the cairns that marked the turn-off, and continued on down the trough far below the trail and was lost. That evening when she did not return to the hotel, a searching party set out to find her. But a terrific hundred-mile gale was raging upon the heights.
Jill clenched her hands unconsciously. "I don't think there are any car tracks at the turn-off where we came in," said Lockley in a level voice. "The rain should have washed them out. It's not likely they're looking for us here anyhow. But I've only got three bullets left in the pistol. Maybe you'd better go off and hide in the cornfield.
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