Iason hid the padlock safely in a big lentisk bush just outside the gate, and then, standing up, faced the others, pointing up the thickly wooded hill. "Listen you! We are going straight up there, and down on the other side towards Vayonia. I am going to find that cave of which Lambro the shepherd told me." Andromache and Nikias gave a united whoop of joy and were rushing forward in the direction of the pointing finger, when Chryseis cried:-- "Stop! Stop! It will be ever so much too far. We had better go to the little chapel of Saint Stathi." "We have been there hundreds of times; and I tell you we may never get such a splendid opportunity for the cave again." "But to Vayonia! So far ...!" objected Chryseis. "Now, listen!" persisted Iason. "What did father say last week, when I said we wanted to go to Vayonia?" "He said, 'We shall see.'" "Well, that does not mean 'no,' does it? Only when the grown-ups say, 'We shall see,' sometimes it does not happen for a long time, and we want this to happen now, to-day, at once!" Then as Chryseis still hung back, he added, "Of course we will say where we have been, directly we get back. Come, then!" And Chryseis came. The first part of the climb was uneventful. Kerberos plodded on heavily and sedately, Philos of course stopped to dig round the roots of nearly all the thyme and lentisk bushes on their way. Andromache, who considered him her special dog, would catch him by the neck and pull him off by main force, but in an instant he was back again, digging frantically, shaking his head, sneezing and beginning all over again. After some time there was a rest under a clump of pines, and Nikias suggested opening the baskets. But when the others all told him he was "A greedy little pig!" he explained that he had only wanted to see if Athanasia had not forgotten the peaches which he had seen on the pantry shelf. "And of course you would run back for them if she had!" said Iason derisively. "Wait till we get to the top," said Chryseis. So they started off again. "Where shall you look for the big cave?" asked Andromache, who was beginning to find her basket heavy and the sun hot. "Did Lambro say if it were high on the hills above Vayonia, or to the right near the vineyards?" "Did you ever hear of a cave near vineyards, stupid?" answered Iason, whose basket was heavier still as it had the bottles of water in it. "Lambro said near the sea; so of course it will be to the left in the big rocks." "You do not know really," persisted Andromache, "you only say 'it will be.'" "I never said I knew; I said 'let us go and find it!'" Suddenly he pointed some way above them, "There is a shepherd! No, not there; on that little footpath where the hill is bare. Let us ask if he knows!" "Perhaps," suggested Pavlo hopefully, "it may be Lambro himself." "No," answered the Four in chorus, "Lambro is lame. See how this man jumps from one rock to another! Bah! Whatever is he doing?"