106 The Little Minister

like him it was. He joukit back when he saw
Mey

While Femie was telling her story in the Tene-
ments, mason Baxter, standing at the window
which looked into his garden, was shouting,
“Wha’s that in my yard?” ‘There was no
answer, and Baxter closed his window, under the
impression that he had been speaking to a cat.
The man in the cap then emerged from the cor-
ner where he had been crouching, and stealthily
felt for something among the cabbages and pea
sticks. It was no longer there, however, and by
and by he retired empty-handed.

“The Egyptian’s cloak has been found,” Mar-
garet was able to tell Gavin next day. ‘“ Mason
Baxter found it yesterday afternoon.”

“Tn his garden?”’ Gavin asked, hurriedly.

“No; in the quarry, he says, but according to
Jean he is known not to have been at the quarry
to-day. Some seem to think that the gypsy gave
him the cloak for helping her to escape, and that
he has delivered it up lest he should get into
difficulties.”

“Whom has he given it to, mother?” Gavin
asked.

“To the policeman.”

“ And has Wearyworld sent it back to Halli-
well?”

“Yes. He told Jean he sent it off at once,
with the information that the masons had found
it in the quarry.”

The next day was Sabbath, when a new trial,
now to be told, awaited Gavin in the pulpit; but
it had nothing to do with the cloak, of which I