While she was looking vainly for some way of escape
she heard Ackland's words and Mrs. Alston's surmise in reply that
he had come with the purpose of revenge. She was so stung by their
apparent truth that she resolved to clamber up through an opening
of the rocks if the thing were possible. Panting and exhausted she
gained the summit, and then hastened to an adjacent grove, as some
wounded, timid creature would run to the nearest cover. Ackland
had heard sounds and had stepped around the point of the rocks
just in time to see her disappearing above the bank. Returning to
Mrs. Alston, he said impatiently:
"In view of your opinions my society can have no attractions for
you. Shall I accompany you to the hotel?"
"No," was the angry reply. "I'm in no mood to speak to you again
to-day."
He merely bowed and turned as if to pursue his walk. The moment
she was hidden, however, he also climbed the rocks in time to see
Miss Van Tyne entering the grove. With swift and silent tread he
followed her, but could not at once discover her hiding-place.
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