*^ I can't think of anything I should like so much
as to find that heron's nest," the handsome stranger
was saying. ^* I would give ten dollars to anybody who
could show it to me," he added desperately, ^' and I
mean to spend my whole vacation hunting for it if
need be. Perhaps it was only migrating, or had been
chased out of its own region by some bird of prey."

Mrs. Tilley gave amazed attention to all this, but
Sylvia still watched the toad, not divining, as she
might have done at some calmer time, that the crea-
ture wished to get to its hole under the doorstep, and
was much hindered by the unusual spectators at that
hour of the evening. No amount of thought, that
night, could decide how many wished-f or treasures the
ten dollars, so lightly spoken of, would buy.
