This man was cognisant of it, and if he, why not others! Why not the whole town! A danger which up to this moment I had heard whispered only by the pines, was opening in a gulf beneath our feet.

Its imminence steadied me.

I had kept my glance on Coroner Perry, and I do not think it changed.

My tone, I am quite assured, was almost as quiet and grave as his as I made my reply in these words: "Her sister is her sister.

I hardly think that either of us would be apt to forget that.