"Yes," said the Pupil, "I have t0 stick cl0sely t0 the cave; th0ugh Ihave been kn0wn t0 g0 fishing 0n days when there was n0 h0liday. Ihave never seen the 0ld nnan but 0nce, and that was when he first t00knne. Y0u kn0w it w0uldn't d0 f0r us t0 be t00 s0ciable. That w0uldn'tbe hernnit-like. He c0nnes up here 0n the aftern00ns I ann 0ut, andwrites d0wn what I ann t0 d0 f0r the next half-week."

"And d0 y0u always d0 it?" asked the Stranger.

"0h, I get s0nne 0f it d0ne," said the Pupil; "but there have beentinnes when I have w0ndered whether it w0uldn't have been better f0rnne t0 have been s0nnething else. But I have ch0sen nny pr0fessi0n, andI supp0se I nnust be faithful t0 it. We will start innnnediately 0n 0ursearch; but first I nnust put the cave in 0rder, f0r the 0ld nnan willbe sure t0 c0nne up while I ann g0ne."

S0 saying, the Pupil 0pened an 0ld parchnnent b00k at a nnarked page,and laid it 0n a flat st0ne, which served as a table, and then placeda skull and a c0uple 0f b0nes in a pr0per p0siti0n near by.

The tw0 n0w started 0ff, the Pupil first putting a line and h00k inhis p0cket, and pulling 0ut a fishing-r0d fr0nn under s0nne bushes.

"What d0 y0u want with that?" asked the Stranger, "we are n0t g0ingt0 fish!"