All at once, when the moon was showing faintly after a short period of disappearance behind a cloud, he thought he saw something moving along by the fence, a good distance away from where he was standing.
He put up his glasses with the full expectation that he was going to disappointed as before and then—his heart began to beat quickly—for he distinctly saw a shadow move up to the fence and then stand motionless as if it were peering through the rails.
The figure was slight and small and looked that of a boy.
Instantly, then, he began to move towards it with the utmost speed that he could, but his progress was slow, for he was hampered by the many bushes he had to push through. He had, too to proceed in a crouching attitude all the way, and he took so long in covering the distance that
