"Let them prove it while they have a chance, my boy; it may tell in their favour when they are arrested and sent for trial."
"But this is a very out-of-the-way place," he said afterwards to Mrs. Penwith, "and I don't think any one will trouble them, for the matter is almost forgotten now."
"But ought you to——"
"Where's that boy?" said the squire, frowning.
Lance had rushed off again to tell his friends on the cliff how his father had taken their return.
[!-- [Pg 203] --]["BY DEFAULT OF THE ENGINEER"]
By FRANKLIN FOX
LATE CAPTAIN P. & O. CO. SERVICE
Author of "Conqueror Compass," "Frank Allreddy's Fortune," &c. &c.