Just how it happened Frank himself could not have told, but Barney fell to talking to the woman in his whimsical way, while Frank and Kate wandered away a short distance, and sat on some stones which had been arranged as a bench in a little nook near Lost Creek. From this position they could hear Barney's rich brogue and jolly laugh as he recounted some amusing yarn, and, when the wind was right, a smell of the black pipe would be wafted to them.
"Do you know," said Frank, "this spot is so wild and picturesque that it fascinates me. I should like to stop here two or three days and rest."
"Better not," said the girl, shortly.
"Why?" asked the boy, in surprise.
"Wal, it mought not be healthy."
"What do you mean?"
"You might be tooken fer revenue."
"For revenue? I do not understand."
"I wonder ef you air so ignerent, or be you jest makin' it?"
"Honestly and truly, I do not understand you."