Alas! poor Cecil." "What has happened to him?
nothing serious." "Dead! my love, dead." "Oh! poor little Cecil," she cried, "that we were all so fond of.

And Mrs.Mayford and Ellen ?" "They have escaped!--they are not to be found .-- They have hidden away somewhere." They crossed the river, and dismounting, they led the tired horse up the steep slope of turf that surrounded a little castellated tor of bluestone.

Here they would hide till the storm was gone by, for from here they could see the windings of the river, and all the broad plain stretched out beneath their feet.
"I do not see them anywhere, Alice," said Sam presently.

"I see no one coming across the plains.

They must be either very near us in the hollow of the river-valley, or else a long way off.