and singing grew louder. From time to time the mu

the lady of the island, glancing at the golden or

dark-skinned child she had surprised on t

round to the left," she suggest

Once more they m

mething startling about

lady cop," she whis

ad of finding herself left behind, the girl felt a pull

strewn with brush and overhung with bushes, led t

led the way through the dark without a single audible swish of brush or crack of twig until, with breath coming quick and fa

ampfire were grou

All French gypsies!" Her heart

she said to herself, "th

scant attire, but waving colorful shawls about them as they whirled, were dancing befor

d no difficulty in locating the child of the trail who had playe

e. She disliked the immodest young dancers and the mus

dancers," she told herself.

serted the caravan for a speed boat. They had seen Jeanne, had recognize

ble. Such a speed boat costs two or three thousand

more pulling at her arm, had led her back to the beac

as if by mistake she rowed the long way round the

ores," she assured herself after a quarter of an hour

distant shore which was, fo

she tell Petite Jeanne of this, her lates