She said Sir Gilbert was not likely to come to harm--he'd been sailing yachts, big and little, for many a year, and he'd no doubt gone further on this occasion than he'd first intended.

I pointed out that he'd Mr.Moneylaws with him, and that he'd been due at his business early that morning.

She laughed again at that, and said she'd no doubt Sir Gilbert and Mr.Moneylaws had settled that matter between them, and that, as she'd no anxieties, she was sure Berwick folk needn't have any.

And so I came away." "And we heard no more until we got your wire yesterday from Dundee, Mr.
Lindsey," said Murray; "and that was followed not so very long after by one from the police at Largo, which I reported to you." "Now, here's an important question," put in Mr.Lindsey, a bit hurriedly, as if something had just struck him.

"Did you communicate the news from Largo to Hathercleugh ?" "We did, at once," answered Murray.