"Did he say if you didn't listen to me he'd cut your ears off?"
"N--n--no, miss."
"Did he swear if you didn't talk to me he'd cut out your tongue
out?"
"N--n--no, miss."
"Well, now, stop howling and listen to me! Since, at the peril of
your eyelids, you are obliged to keep me in sight, I give you leave
to ride just within view of me, but no nearer, and you are never to
let me see or hear you, if you can help it for I like to be alone."
"I'll do anything in this world for peace, Miss Caterpillar," said
poor Wool.
And upon this basis the affair was finally settled. And no doubt
Capitola owed much of her personal safety to the fact that Wool kept
his eyes open.
While these scenes were going on at Hurricane Hall, momentous events
were taking place elsewhere, which require another chapter for their
development.
CHAPTER VIII.
ANOTHER MYSTERY AT THE HIDDEN HOUSE.
"Hark! what a shriek was that of fear intense,
Of horror and amazement!
What fearful struggle to the door and thence
With mazy doubles to the grated casement!"
An hour after the departure of Capitola, Colonel Le Noir returned to
the Hidden House and learned from his man David that upon the
preceding evening a young girl of whose name he was ignorant had
sought shelter from the storm and passed the night at the mansion.
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