But Olive clung desperately to Frank Kent's arm as he tried to follow him.
"Please let me speak to you a minute alone before you go," she pleaded. Then when they were out in the yard and away from the others she put her hand on Frank's arm and looked at him with an earnestness which he did not in the least understand.
"When you find Jack will you please give her this message from me," she asked. "Tell her that she has been making a dreadful mistake all along and that there is nothing in the world that will make me so happy as to hear of her engagement to you. Please tell her this when you first find her, don't wait until you are at home again."
With a rather unusual show of emotion Frank pressed both of Olive's hands in his. "You believe that Jack really cares for me?" he demanded.
And then as Olive bowed her head without replying he mounted a fresh horse, riding away in the direction that Olive had indicated.
CHAPTER XVIII
JACK SURRENDERS AT LAST
