A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
46
When
they had reached a point pre-
cisely opposite that in
Swancourt lay
in
which Mrs. and Miss
ambush, Knight stopped
and turned round.
Look
'
here,
my
he
boy,'
The boy parted
his
said.
opened his
lips,
and answered nothing.
eyes,
Here's sixpence for you, on condition
'
you
that
come within twenty
yards of
don't again
my
heels,
the
all
way up
the
valley.*
The boy, who apparently had not known he had been looking at Knight's heels at all,
took the sixpence mechanically, and
Knight went on again, wrapt in meditation.
'A what
nice voice,' Elfride thought;
a singular
temper
'Kow we must ascends the softly.
And
cut over a
slope,'
'but
!'
get indoors before he said
Mi's.
Swancourt
they went across by a short
stile,
entering the lawn
by a
side
door, and so on to the house.
Mr. Swancourt had
<ioiio
into the vil-
