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`` It 's probably that idiot Allen , '' he growled . `` We must follow them . '' Away from the shore shadows the starlight was sufficient to confirm Dan 's surmise as to the nature of this canoe flight . It was quite ten o'clock , and the lights in the Bassett house on the bluff above had been extinguished . It was at once clear to Dan that he must act promptly . Allen , dismayed by the complications that beset his love-affair , had proposed an elopement , and Marian had lent a willing ear . `` They 're running away , Sylvia ; we 've got to head them off . ''