And no wonder--as things are!" "But you were saying where it happened," I said.
"Where he was found ?" said he.

"Well, and it was where Till runs into Tweed--leastways, a bit up the Till.

Do you know John McIlwraith's lad--yon youngster that they've had such a bother with about the school--always running away to his play, and stopping out at nights, and the like--there was the question of sending him to a reformatory, you'll remember?
Aye, well, it turns out the young waster was out last night in those woods below Twizel, and early this morning--though he didn't let on at it till some time after--he saw the body of a man lying in one of them deep pools in Till.

And when he himself was caught by Turndale, who was on the look out for him, he told of what he'd seen, and Turndale and some other men went there, and they found--Crone!" "You were saying there were marks of violence," said I.
"I haven't seen them myself," he answered.

"But by Turndale's account--it was him brought in the news--there is queer marks on the body.