St Nicholas [serial] . seenhim running around the corner of the hotelpursued by some boys. Where were the boys ? At supper. Whichcorner of the hotel ? He told them; and aminute later Quint and Cliff were standing onthe spot where they had interviewed the crusty-tempered old cook. The cook was no longer there, but presentlyJenny Ray appeared, with some dishes on atray, between the dining-room and the recognized them, and smiled at theirquestion. The dog was here only a little while ago,she told them, and I believe that the manhimself was in the dining-room at the verytime you were i
St Nicholas [serial] . seenhim running around the corner of the hotelpursued by some boys. Where were the boys ? At supper. Whichcorner of the hotel ? He told them; and aminute later Quint and Cliff were standing onthe spot where they had interviewed the crusty-tempered old cook. The cook was no longer there, but presentlyJenny Ray appeared, with some dishes on atray, between the dining-room and the recognized them, and smiled at theirquestion. The dog was here only a little while ago,she told them, and I believe that the manhimself was in the dining-room at the verytime you were inquiring for him. The English lord ! exclaimed Cliff. Jenny laughed. The cook told me howshe fooled you. It was too bad ! 416 TWO BIDDICUT BOYS. [Mar. I d like to fan her with her own gridiron!said Quint indignantly. Where is he now —the man who was in the dining-room ? I dont know; he was in the grove till hisdog came and found him. But I cant stoplonger! And Jenny went on into the kitchen. XVIII. THE WAYSIDE hullo! said the dog-seller; what do you want of me? (see PAGE 418.) The boys hastened to the grove, where theyfound a nurse with two small children, andlearned from her that Winslow had gone offwith his dog shortly after the supper-gongsounded. She showed the way he had taken throughthe grove, and they started in pursuit. A driveway skirting the grove in the rearof the hotel led to an open road not far be-yond. This the boys soon reached, and theywere fortunate in hear-ing of Winslow and thedog before much timewas lost in looking fortracks along the found them-selves in a beautiful up-land, with the groveon their left, a rollingfarm region on the otherside, and before them apleasant road stretchingaway to the westward,across a cool valley,toward distant woodedhills. The sun was notyet setting, but massesof black cloud withwondrously illuminededges surging up in awild sky cast a strangegloom over all the land-scape. There s rain-waterin that cloud, saidQ
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