tered a yell of horror, and threw the fellow shoe, and the pig made
for the bread, just as, armed with a long stick, Adela came round the
corner, saw the position, and rushed at the intruder, whom a blow from
the stick drove grunting away.

"Oh, I am glad you came," cried Hilary. "You were only just in time."

"The nasty thing," cried the lady, picking up the bread. "Had he
touched it?"

"No," said Hilary pointedly; "_she_ had. But pray make haste."

"Oh, what fun!" cried Adela, sticking the point of the stick into the
bread, and then, with the weight at the end making the wand bend like a
fishing-rod, she held it up bobbing and bowing about to Hilary, who
caught at it eagerly, and took a most frightful bite out of one side,
leaving a model for the arch of a bridge perfectly visible to the young
lady.

"What lovely bread!" said Hilary, with his mouth full. Another model
arch made in the bread.

"I was so precious hungry."

"I can see you were," cried Adela laughing.

"But I say," said Hilary, with his mouth full; "this is just like
feeding a wild beast in a cage."

"But however did you come to be here?" cried the girl.

"Can't talk till I've been fed a little more," replied Hilary. "I say,
Addy, dear, how about that milk?"

"That's what I was thinking," said the girl; "I can't push that up to
you on the stick."

"No," said Hilary, munching away. "What are we to do?"

"I don't know, Hil."

"I do."

He took another tremendous bite, which made the two arches into one by
the destruction of the model pier, laid the bread down on the
window-sill, and was about to leap down, when he remembered something.

"I beg your pardon," he said politely; "would you mind picking up my
shoes on the end of that stick, and passing them up?"

"Oh, Hilary!"

"I was obliged to shy them at the pig to save my breakfast. Thank you,"
he continued, as she laughingly picked up a shoe on the end of the stick
and passed it up. "Now the other. Thanks," he added, dropping them
inside his prison. "Now I want that milk."

As Adela picked up the jug the sailor dropped back after his shoes, put
them on, ran to his straw bed, munching away the while, and drew out the
cord that had been used to bind his legs.

"How useful a bit of line always is!" he muttered as he climbed back to
the window-sill, held on with one arm through the bars, and took another
tremendous bite from the bread, nodding pleasantly the while at his old