d we said to one
another, I think."

"It was Ailwin that threw that in my teeth."

"Father would not say so now: never after you had had Geordie on your
knees and made him fond of you, as you did."

"Do you really think so?"

"I am almost sure of it. But he could not help thinking badly of you if
you keep that money."

"I am not going to keep it. Do you go and find it, if you like, for I
can't. It is in a hollow elm that stands between two beeches, on the
other side of the wood. There is a little cross cut in the bark, on the
south side--that will help you to find it. But don't you go till you
have got me to the tent."

Oliver helped him home, amidst lightning and splashing rain, explaining
as they went why the tent was down, but thinking it best to say nothing
of the boat to one so weak-spirited as Roger was now. He then ran off,
and found the money-bag. He wished the weather would clear, that he
might look out again: but, meanwhile, he felt that he was not losing
time in collecting together all the goods that were on the hill; for the
tempest so darkened and filled the air, that he knew he could not have
seen a furlong into the distance, if he had been on his perch at this
moment. He wore his mother's watch in his pocket, feeling as if it
promised that he should meet her again, to put it back into her hands.

"Now, Oliver," said Ailwin, "I am vexed with you that you did not sleep
while you might, before this growling, splashing weather came on, and
while there was something of a shelter over your head. If you don't go
to sleep the minute this tempest is over, I must see what I must do to
you: for you will be having the fever else; and then what is to become
of me, among you all, I should like to know? I wish you would creep in
now between the mattresses under the tree, and never think of the storm,
but go to sleep like a good boy. It is hardly likely that the lightning
should strike that particular tree, just while you are under it."

"But if you should chance to find me a cinder, when you thought it time
for me to be waking, Ailwin--would not that be as bad as my having the
fever?"

"Oliver! How can you talk so? How dare you think of such a shocking
thing?"

"You put it into my head, Ailwin. But come--let me tell you a thing I
want you to do, if I should be away when it stops raining. Here are
Roger's old clothes, safe and dry here between the beds. When it leaves
off raining, make him pu