The Gold of Chickaree

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CROSS THREADS. AND in all the world there was but one person to whom she could speak, for but one had guessed her secret ; even Gyda. It seemed to the girl afterwards as if at this time again her mother's prayers must have been around her; so clear and swift and instinctive were her decisions, in the chaos of all other things. No danger now of meeting any one at the cottage. But how to get there ? Not through Morton Hollow, not on Jeannie Deans,?oh no, oh no ! If she went, she must go by that other almost impossible way, which was not a way. She would drive to the foot of the hill, and leave the carriage there, and not take Lewis to see where she went. How she did it, Hazel never remembered afterwards. She left the carriage with a cheery word to Reo, and then set her face to the hill ; the lit