"Then," he advised, "it would be wiser to set about it while the boys are getting supper; there'll be nobody about the back of the hotel then. In the meanwhile, we'd better go in again and talk to the others."
CHAPTER XXII
ALISON SPOILS HER GLOVES
Mrs. Farquhar and her friends had finished supper, and the men who got their meals there were trooping into the hotel, when Alison found Thorne waiting on the veranda.
"You're ready, I suppose?"
"I've no intention of keeping you waiting, anyway," Thorne replied.
Alison looked at him with a hint of sharpness.
"If you would very much rather stay here, why should you come at all? Now that you have told me what to do, it really isn't necessary."
Thorne smiled.
"Well," he said, "on the whole, it strikes me as advisable."