hen no one else can."

"That's a good thing for the rest of us," said Trenwith with a smile.
"She's a useful person to have around at a time like this. I'm going to
have a couple of my men--detectives--stay around here to-night to keep
an eye on things. It's likely, of course, that there's nothing to be
afraid of, but just the same, we don't want to take any chances."

"I'm glad you've done that," said Eleanor. "I don't think I'm the
ordinary type of timid woman, but I must confess that all these things
worry me, and I'll feel a lot safer if I know that we are not entirely
at the mercy of any trick they try to play on us to-night. They seem to
be getting bolder, all the time."

"Well, after all you know, that's one of the most hopeful things about
the whole business. It means that they're getting desperate--that their
time is getting short. They feel that if they don't succeed soon they
never will, because it will be too late. All we've got to do is to stand
them off a little longer, and the whole business will be settled and
done with.

"I've got to get back to Bay City to-night. If anything happens, don't
hesitate to call me up, no matter what time it is. If I'm out at any
time you do have to call me, I'll leave word where I'm going, so that if
you tell them at my house who you are, they'll find me. Good-night!"

Neither Dolly nor Bessie slept well that night. Jake's appearance had
been disturbing; it seemed to both of them much more likely that his
coming heralded some new attempt by Holmes, rather than a desire on his
part to confess. But the night passed without anything to rouse them,
and in the morning their fears seemed rather foolish, as fears are apt
to do when they are examined in the sunlight of a new day.

"I don't see what they can do, after all," said Dolly. "There aren't any
woods around here as there were at Long Lake. We're all in sight of the
camp and of one another all the time, and they certainly won't be able
to work that trick of setting the tents on fire again."

"I guess you're right," said Bessie. "It seems different this morning,
somehow. I was worried enough last night but I feel a whole lot better
now. I'm glad it's such a beautiful day. The weather makes a lot of
difference in the way you feel. It always does with me, I know."

"I'm going out in the sloop after breakfast," said Dolly. "That is, if
Miss Eleanor says it's all right. There's a lot more wind than there was
yesterday, an