Spellbound they stood.
"Yes," shouted Belle. "That's Cora!"
"Oh, quick," gasped Betty, "she may stop, and then——"
A rustle in the bushes close by startled them. A man groped his way out.
"What do you want?" he demanded.
"Oh, Leland!"
It was Miss Robbins who uttered the words. She made her way up to the stranger, and while the others stood dumfounded she threw herself in the stranger's arms.
"You, Regina? Here?"
"Yes, is this the Hemlock Bend? Oh, to think that we have found you!"
"But I must go! That was her harp. That was Lillian—somewhere in that thick woods!"