see
mother, and while Harry is in Mixham, I certainly will."

Nellie Lyon's eyes filled with tears.

"I thank you from the bottom of my heart," she said.

Denys rose. A glance at her watch had told her it was getting very
late. What could have become of Gertrude?

She went out once more. No one at all like the missing couple had
come. Indeed she herself had been sitting in full view of the gate for
more than an hour. Already the sun was sinking and the air was growing
chill, and a mist was gathering under the trees in the Landslip. If
she waited much longer she would have a dreary enough walk under those
trees in the dusk. It was not a cheerful prospect, and what would
Charlie think if she were not at the station to meet him?

That and the growing darkness decided her. Hastily scribbling a note
to be left with the woman in case Gertrude and Cecil turned up, she
hurried away.

It was not a pleasant walk. The sea sounded mournfully at the foot
of the rocks below her, and the darkness under the trees was not
reassuring, and seemed to fall deeper each moment. She wished she had
taken the upper, though much longer road, or that she had started half
an hour earlier and left Gertrude and Cecil to their own devices. Even
when the moon, the great round moon, came up out of the sea and shone
through the trees upon her path, it only seemed to make the shadows
blacker and more eerie, till she remembered that it was the Easter
moon, and thought of Him who had knelt beneath the trees of Gethsemane
under that moon, on this night of His agony.

After that, thinking of Him, she did not feel afraid, and at last she
rang at Mrs. Henchman's door.

Audrey ran out to open it.

"Well! I thought you were never coming! Where are the others?"

"I don't know," said Denys, "I can't think."

CHAPTER VI.

A TICKET FOR ONE.

As Cecil very justly observed to Gertrude, it was a perfect afternoon
for a ride, and the two went gaily along the upper road to the
Landslip, till they came to a sign-post in a place where four roads
met.

Gertrude jumped off her machine and stood gazing up at the directions
indicated.

"You see!" she observed, "we have lots of time before that slow donkey
gets there. We might make a detour and get into the road again later
on. We don't want to sit staring down the Landslip till they arrive.
Besides, we've seen it all yesterday, haven't we?"

Cecil acquiesced. It amused him to see Gertrude's cool w