"Why, that tree is where Margaret hides her most precious
possessions," said Nan, suddenly, sitting up in bed. "Why, what
could it be she was afraid Rafe would find there? Why can that
child have hidden something there that she doesn't want any of us
to see?"
Late as it was, and dark as it was, and stormy as the night was,
she felt that she must know immediately what Margaret Llewellen
had hidden in the hollow tree.
Chapter XXIX
GREAT NEWS FROM SCOTLAND
Nan put two and two together, and the answer came right.
She got out of bed, lit her lamp again and began to dress. She
turned her light down to a dim glimmer, however, for she did not
want her aunt to look out of the window of her bedroom on the
other side of the parlor and catch a glimpse of her light.
In the half darkness Nan made a quick toilet; and then, with her
raincoat on and hood over her head, she hesitated with her hand
upon the knob of the door.
"If I go through the parlor and out the side door, Aunt Kate will
hear me," thought Nan. "That won't do at all."
She looked at the further window. Outside the rain was pattering
and there was absolutely no light. In the pocket of her raincoat
Nan had slipped the electric torch she had brought from home,
something of which Aunt Kate cordially approved, and was always
begging Uncle Henry to buy one like it.
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