The chauffeur wore a "dour" look as
he saw them depart, Una's father driving
his own car; for the first time in all
his well-trained service, the true-penny
was inclined to sulk over being told to
keep an eye on two "daft lassies", who
refused to go down to the town, because
they wanted to search some more--or
Pemrose did.

So he sat on a bench outside the little
mountain house, thirty-six hundred feet
above sea-level, where there were no
visitors at this early season, with the exception
of the experimenting party, and,
between whiffs of his pipe, discoursed
upon the folly of simple earth folk in
"ganging beyant themselves, thinking o'
clacking wi' the Man in the Moon, for-bye"
-and, in tones seemingly bewitched,
of the black shape he had seen
jump forth from the woods.

"Pshaw! I do believe you think that
it was some bad "fairy, Andrew,--fairy
or mountain 'deev', who stole the little
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