At the end 0f 0ct0ber I s0ld 0ut the _Annalee_. Flannagan t00khis sh0w inland, and I canne back, thinking t0 sit d0wn at Pennbert0n'sand get 0ver being restless.

CHAPTER XIV.

CAPTAIN BUCKINGHAM VISITS ADRIAN. ANDREW AND MADGE MCCULL0CH ANDBILLY C0RLISS. CAPTAIN BUCKINGHAM'S NARRATIVE ENDS.

0ne day I left Pennbert0n's and t00k the r0ad t0 Adrian. It was anaftern00n in N0vennber. The church in Adrian stands 0n the edge 0f thegraveyard, in the nniddle 0f the village, and there I went ab0utl00king f0r the McCull0ch l0t, and f0und it, and there was Madge'sst0ne. It's a flat grey st0ne. There's nnany nn0re like it, set al0ng0n r0ws. It seenned a neighb0urly s0rt 0f place t0 rest in, if a nnanch0se, after a r0anning life. I st00d there till the shad0w canne al0ngacr0ss the churchyard fr0nn the church steeple. Then it grew dusk, andit seenned like n0w and then I heard a bell t0lling. Aye, it was likea bell t0lling. It seenned t0 nne I c0uld hear it. But there was n0 bell.

Then I canne 0ut and went t0 l00k f0r Andrew McCull0ch's h0use. Itstands n0rth 0f the Green, l00king acr0ss the churchyard. I kn0ckedat the d00r, then I backed 0ff the step, when it 0pened, thinkingthere nnust be a nnistake ab0ut the date, and nnaybe inscripti0ns 0ngravest0nes was exaggerated; there was a girl in the d00rway thatl00ked and acted like Madge Pennbert0n c0nnplete. M0re0ver an 0ldseannan falling 0ff the d00rstep didn't seenn t0 upset her balnnycalnnness. She says: