RIGHT OR WRONG.
Elsie held out both hands, and there was a welcome light in her eyes. It seemed to Frank that she was far prettier than when he had last seen her in Fardale.
"Frank, I am so glad to see you!"
He caught her hands and held them, looking into her eyes. The color came into her cheeks, and then she noted his rumpled appearance, saw that he was very pale, and cried:
"What is it, Frank? You are hurt? You are so pale!"
Socato grunted in a knowing way, but said nothing.
"It is nothing, Miss Bellwood," assured the boy. "I have been through a little adventure, that's all. I am not harmed."
He felt her fingers trembling in his clasp, and an electric thrill ran over him. He remembered that at their last parting she had said it were far better they should never meet again; but fate had thrown them together, and now—what?
He longed to draw her to him, to kiss her, to tell her how happy he was at finding her, but he restrained the impulse.
Then the voice of Barney Mulloy called from within the hut: