Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children 2 Hynde Etin Free Bedtime Stories for Children.section two of stories from the balance told to the children this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by geva stories from the ballads told to the children by mary easter miller macgregor

hind etten may margaret did not love to sew yet here in the doorway of her bower she sat her silk seam in her hand mae margaret sat with her seam in her hand but she did not sew she dreamed and her dream was all of almond wood she was there herself under the greenwood gay the tall trees bowed the little trees nodded to her the flowers threw their sweetest scents after her as she passed along the little bird sang their gladys that she might hear how fair and green and cool it was in the wood of elmond on a sudden margaret sat upright in the doorway of her bower she dreamed no more the sound of the hunting horn rang in her ear it was blown in almond wood then down on her lap slipped the silken scene downed her feet the needle mae margaret was up and away to the greenwood down by the hazel bushes she hastened nor noticed that the evening shadows fell on past the bridge grove she ran there noticed that the dew fell fast no one did may margaret mead until she reached a white thorn tree there up from the grass on which he lay sprang hind etten what do ye seek in the wood may margaret said he is it flowers or is it for do ye seek this mighty night of may but margaret did not care to answer she only shook her head and said hind ettin i am forester of almond wood nor should ye enter it without my leave nay now cried lady margaret leave will i ask of no man for my father is earl of all this land your father made the earl of all the land may margaret yet shall ye die because ye will not ask my leave to come to almondwood and he seized her fast and tied her to a tree by her long yellow locks yet did hind ettin not kill the maiden but this is what he did he pulled up the root the tallest tree he could see and in the hollow he dug a deep deep cave and into the cave he thrust me margaret now will ye wander no more in my woods cried hind etten here shall ye stay or whom shall ye come with me to be my wife they hear will i rather stay cried may margaret for my father will seek for me and will find me here but a cave was dark and cold and earl sought yet did not find his daughter no bed was there in a cave for may margaret no bad to save the rough earth no fellow save a stone poor may margaret she did not like the dark or the cold ear many days had passed away she thought it would be better to live behind etten than to stay longer alone and so dismal a cave take me out take me out then cried me margaret hind etten heard the maiden's call and he came and took her out of the cave deep into the greenwood he carried her where his own home had been built and there he made mae margaret the earl's daughter his wife for 12 long years margaret lived in the greenwood and hind ettin was kind to her and she grew to love him well seven little sons had margaret and happy and gay was their life in woodland home yet often margaret grieve that her little wee sons had never been taken to holy church she wished the priest might christen them there now one day hind ettin slung his bow across his shoulder placed a sheath of arrows in his belt and was up and away to the hunt with him he took his eldest wee son under the gay greenwood they paste behind ettin and his eldest son and the thrush sang to them his morning song uppered over the hills they climbed and they heard the chimes of church bells clear then the little wee sun said to the father and you would not be angry with me father there is somewhat i would ask ask what ye will my bonnie wee boy said hind ettin for never will i be cross with you my mother ofttimes we father why is that she sub so bitterly your mother...

The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 14 Free Teens Adventure Audiobook Talking Book.

chapter 14 of the mystery at dark cedars by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain bad news mary louise's first impulse upon leaving miss tracy's home was to rush right over to karine pearson with the demand to see the necklace which she had worn at the dance the night before but she had not taken more than a few steps before she saw the foolishness of such a proceeding in the first place karine would not be likely to show her the necklace in the second place mary louise could tell nothing by examining it she wasn't a connoisseur in rubies it was doubtful whether she could spot a real stone if she saw one no nothing was to be gained by a visit to the pearsons at this time so instead she directed her course towards home resolving to discuss the whole affair with her father if he had returned from his business trip as her mother had expected she found him on the porch reading the sunday paper and smoking his pipe he was a big man with a determined chin and fine dark eyes which lighted up with joy at the sight of his daughter mary lou he exclaimed getting up out of his chair and kissing her i was so afraid you wouldn't be home to see me i just had to see you daddy return the girl i need your help sit down dear your mother tells me that you are engaged in some serious business i feel very proud of my detective daughter i'm afraid i'm not so good after all she replied sadly now that i'm really up against a hard problem i don't know which way to turn i'd like to tell you about it if you have time she seated herself in the hammock and took off her hat it was lovely and cool on the shaded porch after the heat of the riverside streets of course i have time mr gay assured her begin at the beginning i will daddy only first of all you must promise not to tell anybody except mother of course miss grant seems to dread publicity of any kind why the reason she gives is that she firmly believes some member of her own family to be guilty and wants to avoid scandal but i think there's another a deeper reason and what do you think that is mary lou a desire to keep her possession of a ruby necklace a secret she kept it hidden in the mattress of her bed and never mentioned it to anybody except one trusted nephew mr gay wrinkled his brows i guess you had better tell me the facts in order dear mary louise settled herself more comfortably in the hammock and told her story just as everything had happened when she finally came to the description of the robbery the previous night and of her own shameful treatment at the hands of the thief her father cried out in resentment don't tell mother about my being bound up and put in the closet she begged it would worry her sick it worries me sick announced mr gay and i don't want you to spend another night in that dreadful place in fact i forbid it mary louise nodded she had been expecting the command then may i bring elsie grant home with me while her aunt is in the hospital she asked yes i suppose so if your mother is willing but his consent was rather reluctant mary louise sensed his distrust of the orphan daddy do you think elsie is guilty she asked immediately i don't know what to think you believe that your intruder was a woman don't you then if it was a woman in miss grant's family how many possible suspects have you mary louise checked them off on her fingers old mrs grant mrs pearson corrine pearson and elsie which are most likely to have heard about the necklace old mrs grant and elsie i should say offhand yes agreed his daughter and i'm sure mrs grace grant wouldn't steal besides she's too old to get down a ladder hold on a minute cautioned her father you're not sure that your thief got away in that manner suppose as you are inclined to believe she was at dark cedars when you arrive last night and suppose she hid in the closet until she thought you were asleep when she...

chapter 4 of the phoenix and the carpet this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by kay hindle the phoenix in the carpet by e nesbit chapter 4 two bazaars mother was really a great deer she was pretty and she was loving and most frightfully good when you were ill and always kind and almost always just that is she was just when she understood things but of course she did not always understand things no one always understands everything and mothers are not angels though a good many of them come pretty near it the children knew that mother always wanted to do what was best for them even if she was not clever enough to know exactly what was the best that was why all of them but much more particularly anthea felt rather uncomfortable keeping the great secret from her of the wishing carpet and the phoenix and anthea whose inside mind was made so that she was able to be much more uncomfortable than the others had decided that she must tell her mother the truth however little likely it was that her mother would believe it and then i shall have done what's right she said to the phoenix and if she doesn't believe me it won't be my fault will it not in the least said the golden bird and she won't so you're quite safe and thea chose a time when she was doing her home lessons they were algebra and latin german english and euclid and she asked her mother whether she might come and do them in the drawing room so as to be quiet she said to her mother and to herself she said and that's not the real reason i hope i shouldn't grow up a liar mother said of course deary and anthea started swimming through a sea of exes and y's and z's mother was sitting at the mahogany bureau writing letters mother dear said anthea yes love a duck said mother about cook said anthea i know where she is do you dear said mother well i wouldn't take her back after the way she has behaved it's not her fault said anthea may i tell you about it from the beginning mother laid down her pen and her nice face had a resigned expression as you know a resigned expression always makes you want not to tell anybody anything it's like this said anthea in a hurry that egg you know that came in the carpet we put it in the fire and it hatched into the phoenix and the carpet was a wishing carpet and a very nice game darling said mother taking up her pen now do be quiet i've got a lot of letters to write i'm going to bournemouth tomorrow with the lamb and there's that bizarre anthea went back to x y and z and mother's pen scratched busily but mother said anthea when mother put down the pen to lick an envelope the carpet takes us wherever we like and i wish it would take you where you could get a few nice eastern things for my bazaar said mother i promise them and i've no time to go to liberties now it shall said anthea but mother well dear said her mother a little impatiently for she had taken up her pen again the carpet took us to a place where you couldn't have whooping cough and the lamb hasn't whooped since and we took cook because she was so tiresome and then she would stay and be queen of the savages they thought her cap was a crown and darling one said mother you know i love to hear the things you make up but i am most awfully busy but it's true said anthea desperately you shouldn't say that my sweet said mother gently and then anthea knew it was hopeless are you going away for long asked anthea i've got a cold said mother and daddy's anxious about it and the lamb's cough he hasn't coughed since saturday the lamb's eldest sister interrupted i wish i could think so mother replied and daddy's got to go to scotland i do hope you'll be good children we will we will said anthea fervently when's the bizarre on saturday said mother at the schools oh don't talk anymore there's a treasure my head's going round and i've forgotten how to spell whooping cough mother and the lamb...

New Chronicles of Rebecca (Dramatic Reading) 2 Daughters of Zion Free Kids' Audiobook

2nd chronicle of new chronicles of rebecca this is librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org new chronicles of rebecca by kate douglas wigan ii chronicle daughters of zion

abaja flag was driving over to wareham on an errand for old squire winship whose general chore boy and farmer's assistant he had been for some years he passed emma jane perkins house slowly as he always did she was only a little girl of 13 and he a boy of 15 or 16 but somehow for no particular reason he liked to see the sun shine on her thick braids of reddish-brown hair he admired her china blue eyes too and her amiable friendly expression he was quite alone in the world and he always thought that if he had anybody belonging to him he would rather have a sister like emma jane perkins than anything else within the power of providence to bestow when she herself suggested this relationship a few years later he casted a side with scorn having changed his mind in the interval but that story belongs to another time and place emma jane was not to be seen in the garden field or at the window and abaja turned his gaze to the large brick house that came next on the other side of the quiet village street it might have been closed for a funeral neither miss miranda nor miss jane sawyer sat at their respective windows knitting and nor was rebecca randall's gypsy face to be discerned ordinarily that will of the whispish little person could be seen heard or felt wherever she was village must be a bed i guess

mused abaja as he neared the robertson's yellow cottage where all the blinds were closed and no sign of life showed on porch or in shed no taint neither

he thought again as his horse crept cautiously down the hill for from the direction of the robinson's barn chamber they're floated out into the air certain burning sentiments set to the tune of antioch the words to a lad brought up in the orthodox faith were quite distinguishable

even the most religious youth is stronger on first lines than others but abaja pulled up his horse and waited till he caught another familiar verse beginning

that's rebecca carrying the air and i can hear emma james also

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land ain't they smart see someone up and down in that part they learn in singing school i wonder what they're acting out seeing him tunes up in the barn chamber some of rebecca's doing zombie bound get up alex

alec pursued his serene and steady trod up the hills on the edgewood side of the river till at length he approached the green common where the old torrey hill meeting house stood its white paint and green blinds showing fair and pleasant in the afternoon sun both doors were open and as abaja turned into the whereham road the church melodion peeled out the opening bars of the missionary hymn and presently a score of voices sent the good old tune from the choir loft out to the dusty

whose road are lighted with wisdom from on high shall we two men be nice

under his breath they're at it up here too that explains it all there's a missionary meeting at the church and the girls weren't allowed to come so they held one of their own and i bet you it's the liveliest of the two apaija flag's shrewd yankee guesses were not far from the truth though he was not in possession of all the facts it will be remembered by those who have been in the way of hearing rebecca's experiences in riverborough that the reverend and mrs burch returned missionaries from the far east together with some of their children all born under syrian skies as they always explained to interested inquirers spent a day or two at the brick house and gave parlor meetings in native costume these visitors coming straight from foreign lands to the little main village...

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 3 How the Rhinoceros Got Its Skin Free Children's Audiobook
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how the rhinoceros got his skin this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this reading by kara shallenberg the just so stories by rudyard kipling how the rhinoceros got his skin

once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the red sea there lived a parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more than oriental splendor and the parsee lived by the red sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch

and one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things and made himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick it was indeed a superior comestible that's magic and he put it on the stove because he was allowed to cook on the stove and he baked it and he baked it till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental but just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach from the altogether uninhabited interior one rhinoceros with a horn on his nose two piggy eyes and few manners in those days the rhinoceros skin fitted him quite tight there were no wrinkles in it anywhere he looked exactly like a noah's ark rhinoceros but of course much bigger all the same he had no manners then and he has no manners now and he never will have any manners he said how and the parsee left that cake and climbed to the top of a palm tree with nothing on but his hat from which the rays of the sun were always reflected in more than oriental splendor and the rhinoceros upset the oil stove with his nose and the cake rolled on the sand and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose and he ate it and he went away waving his tail to the desolate and exclusively uninhabited interior which abuts on the islands of mazanderan socotra and promontories of the larger equinox then the parsi came down from his palm tree and put the stove on its legs and recited the following sloka which as you have not heard i will now proceed to relate them that takes cakes which the parsee man bakes makes dreadful mistakes and there was a great deal more in that than you would think because five weeks later there was a heat wave in the red sea and everybody took off all the clothes they had the parsee took off his hat but the rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe in those days it buttoned underneath with three buttons and looked like a waterproof he said nothing whatever about the parsy's cake because he had eaten it all and he never had any manners then since or henceforward he waddled straight into the water and blew bubbles through his nose leaving his skin on the beach

presently the parsee came by and found the skin and he smiled one smile that ran all around his face two times then he danced three times round the skin and rubbed his hands then he went to his camp and filled his hat with cake crumbs for the parsee never ate anything but cake and never swept out his camp he took that skin and he shook that skin and he scrubbed that skin and he rubbed that skin just as full of old dry stale tickly cake crumbs and some burned currants as ever it could possibly hold then he climbed to the top of his palm tree and waited for the rhinoceros to come out of the water and put it on and the rhinoceros did he buttoned it up with the three buttons and it tickled like cake crumbs in bed then he wanted to scratch but that made it worse and then he lay down on the sands and rolled and rolled and rolled and every time he rolled the cake crumbs tickled him worse and worse and worse then he ran to the palm tree and rubbed and rubbed and rubbed himself against it he rubbed so much and so hard that he rubbed his skin into a great fold...

Young Adult Short Works Collection Robinson Crusoe Free Kids' Audiobook Library
robinson crusoe this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org

crusoe by an anonymous author abridged for young readers for the mclaughlin brothers aunt kate series 1880 i was born at york in the year 1632 of a good family my father's name was kritzner a native of bremen who by trading at hull gained a very plentiful fortune he married my mother at york and as her maiden name was robinson i was called robinson kritzner which not being easily pronounced in the english tongue we are now called and indeed call ourselves and write our name crusoe no pains or charge was spared in my education my father designing me for the law yet nothing would serve me but i must go to sea both against the will of my father the tears of my mother and the entreaties of friends i was then i think 19 years old when one time being at hall i met a school fellow going with his father who was master of a ship to london and telling him of my roving desires he assured me of a free passage without imploring a blessing or taking farewell of my parents i took shipping on the 1st of september 1651 for london after making several voyages from thence to the coast of guinea i finally sailed for the brazils then northward upon the coast till our ship made cape augustine in order to gain africa from whence going further into the ocean we met with a terrible tempest when the weather cleared up a little we found ourselves upon the coast of guinea we then laid our course for the leeward islands but a second storm succeeding drove us to the westward so we were afraid of falling into the hands of cruel savages or the paws of beasts of prey in this distress one of our men cried out land land which he had no sooner said then our ship struck upon a sand bank and the sea breaking over her we expected all to have perished immediately while we stood looking at one another expecting death every moment the mate laid hold of the boat and with the help of the rest flung it over the ship's side and all getting in we committed ourselves to god's mercy when we had been driven about a league and a half a large wave came rolling the stern of us and overset the boat i was overwhelmed with water going i know not wither but as i thought into a dismal golf unknown while all my companions were overpowered and entombed in the deep i was at length dashed against a piece of rock in such a manner as left me senseless but recovering a little before the return of the wave i pushed forward and reached the mainland tired and almost spent i sank down on the grass by the cliffs of the shore free from the dangers of the foaming ocean i cast my eyes around to behold what place i was in i could see no house nor people i was wet yet had no clothes hungry and thirsty yet had nothing to eat or drink the darksome night coming upon me i got up into a thick bushy tree and seating myself so that i could not fall a deep sleep overtook me it was broad day the next morning before i awoke and came down from the tree the tempest had ceased and the ship lay about a mile from the place where i was i resolved to swim to the ship and leaped into the water after i reached it i found great difficulty in getting on board finding the provisions in good order i crammed my pockets and losing no time ate while i was doing other things i fell to work and flung overboard several spare yards a spare top mast or two and two or three large spars of wood tying every one of them with a rope that they might not drift away then i went down to the ship's side and tied the spars fast together in the form of a raft and crossed them with the plank until i found it would carry a considerable burden i then considered what i should load it with i first lowered down all the plank and boards i could get then three siemens chests which i filled with bread rice...

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My Doggie and I by Robert Michael Ballantyne 11 Free Animal Kids Audiobook Fiction Bookschapter 11 of my doggy and eye by robert valentine this librivox recording is in the public domain recorded by alison hester chapter 11 relates generally to the doings and sayings of robin slider my dear said mrs mctoogle one evening to the doctor since that little boy slider came to stay with us things have become worse and worse in fact the house is almost unbearable my dear responded dr mcdougall you amaze me surely the boy has not dared to be rude insolent to you oh no it's not that but he must really be forbidden to enter the nursery our darlings you know were dreadful enough before he came but since then they have become absolute maniacs you don't mean to say that the little rascal has been teaching them bad words or manners i hope return the doctor with a frown dear me no papa don't get angry answered the anxious lady far from it on the contrary i really believe that our darlings have greatly improved his language and manners by their example but robin's exuberant spirits are far too much for them it is like putting fire to gunpowder and they are so fond of him that's the difficulty the boy does not presume i must say that for him and he is very respectful to nurse but the children are constantly asking him to come play with them which he seems quite pleased to do and then his mind is so eccentric so inventive the new games he devises are very ingenious but so exceedingly dangerous and destructive that it is absolutely necessary to check him and i want you to do it dear i must know something of the nature of the mischief before i can check it said the doctor oh it's indescribable return the lady the smell that he makes in the nursery with his chemical experiments is awful and then poor pompeii or dumps or whatever they call him for they seem very undecided about his name has not the life of i was going to say a dog with them only last night when you were out the ridiculous boy proposed the storming of an ogre's castle nurse was downstairs at the time or it could never have happened well of course robin was the yoga darling dolly was a princess whom he had stolen away jack was a prince who was to deliver her and the others were the prince's retainers a castle was built in one corner of all the tables and chairs in the room piled on each other with one particular chair so ingeniously arranged that the pulling of it out would bring the castle in ruins to the ground the plan of attack as far as i could make out was that the prince should ring our dinner bell at the castle gates and fiercely demand admittance the demand to be followed by a burst from the trumpets drums and gongs of his soldiers the ogre seated on the castle top with the princess after a few preliminary yells and howls was to say in a gruff voice that he was too much engaged just then with his dinner that three roast babies were being dished when they were disposed of the princess would be killed and served up as a sort of light pudding after which he would open the castle gate a horrible smell was to be created at this point to represent the roasting of the babies this was to be the signal for a bust of indignation from the prince and his troops who were to make a furious assault on the door one of our largest tea trays and after a little the prince was to pull away the particular chair and rush back with his men to avoid the falling ruin while the ogre and princess were to find shelter under the nursery table and then when the fall was over they were to be found dead among the ruins i am not sure whether the princess was to be revived or she was to have a grand funeral but the play never got that length i was sitting here listening to the various sounds overhead wondering what they could be about when i heard a loud ringing that was the castle bell it was soon followed by a burst of toy trumpets and drums a most disgusting smell began to permeate the house at the...

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 7 Adventure Audiobooks Teens Traditional Tales
this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recorded by kevin kivaco the three musketeers by alexander dumas chapter 7 the interior of the musketeers when dartanian was out of the louvre and consulted his friends upon the use he had best make of his share of the 40 pistols ethos advised him to order a good repass at the palm de pan porthos to engage alaki and aramis to provide himself with a suitable mistress the repast was carried into effect that very day and the lackey waited at table the repast had been ordered by ethos and the lackey furnished by porthos he was a picard whom the glorious musketeer had picked up at the bridge tornell making rings and plashing in the water porthos pretended that this occupation was proof of a reflective and contemplative organization and he had brought him away without any other recommendation the noble carriage of this gentleman for whom he believed himself to be engaged had one planchet that was the name of the picard he felt a slight disappointment however when he saw that this place was already taken by a computer named mosquito and when porthos signified to him that the state of his household though great would not support two servants and that he must enter into the service of dartanian nevertheless when he waited at the dinner given by his master and saw him take out a handful of gold to pay for it he believed his fortune made and returned thanks to heaven for having thrown him into the service of such a crisis he preserved this opinion even after the feast with the remnants of which he repaired his own long abstinence but when in the evening he made his master's bed the chimeras of planchet faded away the bed was the only one in the apartment which consisted of an anti-chamber and a bedroom pluncher slept in the antechamber upon a coverlet taken from the bed of dartanian and which dartanian from that time made shift to do without athos on his part had a valet whom he had trained in his service in a thoroughly peculiar fashion and who was named gremol he was very taciturn this worthy senor be it understood we are speaking of ethos during the five or six years that he had lived in the strictest intimacy with his companions porthos and aramis they could remember having often seen him smile but had never heard him laugh his words were brief and expressive conveying all that was meant and no more no embellishments no embroidery no arabesques his conversation a matter of fact without a single romance although ethos was scarcely 30 years old and was of great personal beauty and intelligence of mind no one knew whether he had ever had a mistress he had never spoken of women he certainly did not prevent others from speaking of them before him although it was easy to perceive that this kind of conversation in which he only mingled by bitter words and misanthropic remarks was very disagreeable to him his reserve his roughness and his silence made almost an old man of him he had then in order not to disturb his habits accustomed grimo to obey him upon a simple gesture upon a simple movement of his lips he never spoke to him except under the most extraordinary occasions sometimes grimo who feared his master as he did fire while entertaining a strong attachment to his person and a great veneration for his talents believed he perfectly understood what he wanted flew to execute the order received and did precisely the contrary ethos then shrugged his shoulders and without putting himself in a passion thrashed gremo on these days he spoke a little porthos as we have seen had a character exactly opposite to that of ethos he not only talked much but he talked loudly little caring we must render him that justice whether anybody listened to him or not he talked for the pleasure of talking and for the pleasure of...

The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 13 Free Teens Adventure Audiobook Talking Book.
chapter 13 of the mystery at dark cedars by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain detective work sunday morning dawned clear and peaceful as mary louise waken to hear the birds singing in the trees outside the window of hannah's old room at dark cedars she could hardly believe in the terrifying experience of the previous night it was just like a horrible dream incredible in the morning sunshine i believe i'd like to go to sunday school she said to jane at the breakfast table it's a lovely day and we'd see all our friends don't you want to come along too elsie the young girl still pale and nervous from the night before shook her head no thank you mary louise she replied i'll stay home and help hannah mary louise glanced up apprehensively as yet the servant had not been informed of the mysterious intruder will you tell her what happened last night she asked in a low tone or shall we no i will agreed elsie she'll be sure it was mrs grant's ghost again and i'll help her fix up the bedroom mary louise nodded you'll come jane she inquired i'm leaving for good announced her chum i wouldn't spend another night at dark cedars for all the necklaces in the world mary louise said nothing there was no use arguing with jane as she went out of the door with silky at her heels she called to hannah that she alone would be back for dinner about two o'clock returned the woman and ain't miss jane coming no hannah answered the girl for herself i shan't see you again goodbye the girls were some distance beyond the hedge of dark cedars when mary louise asked her companion her reason for leaving because she added now that everything valuable has been stolen i don't see what you have to fear jane hesitated a moment i hate to say it mary lou but i feel i must tell you for your own protection it's elsie i'm afraid of i really believe she's guilty i think she has those gold pieces hidden somewhere at dark cedars and now the necklace i think she's a sneak and i believe she's planning a getaway but if one of us should discover her theft i'm afraid she'll do something desperate to us an expression of pain passed over mary louise's face go on and tell me why you suspect her she said on account of last night figure it out for yourself if that had been a burglar why wouldn't silky have barked when he was getting into the house why wouldn't elsie have heard him if she was down in the kitchen as she said and how could he have gotten away so quickly you think maybe he went out that window at the side of the house but that's only a guess elsie could have pretended to make an escape from the window while you were locked in the closet and then have slipped out the door and down to the kitchen mary louise gasped in horror it doesn't sound possible she admitted and the way she protested her innocence immediately added jane remember that yes i do but there is a possible explanation jane the burglar might have broken into the house while we were away and been hiding in the closet while i got ready for bed i didn't open the door but why would he do that why wouldn't he finish the job and leave before we came back he might have just gotten in about the time we arrived at dark cedars she paused thinking of corrine pearson suppose it was karine on her way to that dance jane shook her head possible but not probable she said no i believe it was elsie do you remember how pleased she was that i wasn't going to sleep with you in miss maddie's room and how she sneaked in there night before last scaring us so oh mary lou i think all the evidence points that way and she's beginning to notice our suspicion that's why she was so quiet at breakfast and so glad to get rid of us mary louise was silent she did not tell jane that she felt convinced that the burglar was of the feminine gender well don't say anything about our experience to anybody caution mary louise...