She must have waded out, or jumped out, into the Deeps beyond--or she wouldn't be missing now.

No accident, sir! The Deeps of the Quicksand have got her.

And they have got her by her own act." After that testimony from a man whose knowledge was to be relied on, the Sergeant was silent.

The rest of us, like him, held our peace.

With one accord, we all turned back up the slope of the beach.
At the sand-hillocks we were met by the under-groom, running to us from the house.