"We shall then endeavour to obtain some trace of them.

It is hopeless at present." "And how about Gabriel and Mrs.Heatherstone ?" I asked.

"Can we not bring them down from the Hall at once?
Your poor sister must be distracted with terror." "She knows nothing of it," Mordaunt answered.

"She sleeps at the other side of the house, and has not heard or seen anything.

As to my poor mother, she has expected some such event for so long a time that it has not come upon her as a surprise.