Cora exclaimed. "Look--we have found her--the missing girl
that Mrs. Raymond wanted so much to find. Nancy Ford! There she is!" and
she pointed to the girl on the couch.

"Nancy Ford!" repeated Belle. "Who----"

"You don't mean to say you don't remember?" cried Cora. "The fire in our
garage--the strange woman--the story she told--of the robbers--of Nancy
Ford disappearing. There is Nancy Ford!"

"Look! her name is on the valise!" Cora pointed a slightly-trembling
finger at it. "She is our waif from the sea. Oh, if she will explain
things--if only everything is all right--and we could find Mrs. Raymond!"

"Perhaps--perhaps the missing money is in--that bag, girls!" whispered
Belle.

The doctor turned around.

"Please keep a little quiet," he suggested. "She will revive in a few
seconds, and I don't want her to have too much of a shock. She will be
all right, I think."

"To think that we have found Nancy Ford!" exclaimed Cora in a tense
voice, but the room was so silent just then that it sounded louder than
it otherwise would have done.

"Who is calling me?" came suddenly from the girl on the sofa. She sat up,
looked around with big, staring eyes, in which the wonder grew as she
noted the room and those in it.

"Who said Nancy Ford?" she demanded again.

"Easy, my dear, easy," said Dr. Brown, softly. "You are with friends and
you are all right. Drink this," and he held some medicine to her lips.
The girl drank unresistingly and then lay back again on the pillows.

CHAPTER XXVI

THE STORY OF NANCY FORD

"When do you think we can talk to her--question her?" asked Cora of Dr.
Brown. It was some hours after Nancy had regained her senses. She had been
fed some nourishing broth, and moved into a spare bedroom, where she was
made comfortable.

"Is it absolutely necessary to question her?" the physician asked in turn.

"It seems to be important," returned Cora. "If she is really Nancy Ford a
great deal depends on it. She may be able to clear the name of a woman who
has suffered much. If we could question her, learn her story, we might be
able to help both her and the woman in question, Mrs. Raymond, who is a
sister of Mr. Haley."

"Oh, yes, the light keeper. I understood there was some mystery about his
sister."

"She has disappeared, and is searching for this very girl we rescued from
the sea," went on Cora. "I do not wish to make her ill, or disturb her,
but if we could hear her story we might be