The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 21 Page 22

“I should think you’d like that. Don’t men love to go discovering? And if you could get into the secret chambers, as you call them, you wouldn’t find much. Then you’d be sorry.”

“Cassandra, what are you covering and holding back?”

“I don’t know, David. It’s like it was when I couldn’t understand the message of the ‘Voices’! When it comes clear and strong, I’ll tell you.”

“Then there is something?”

“Yes.”

With a little sigh, she rose and entered the cabin. He sat in silence as she had left him, but soon she returned. Standing behind him in the darkness, she put her