"Can you account for any reason why the girl should be missing ?" "I haven't an idea," said I."But if it's anything to do with all the rest of this business, Mr.Lindsey, let somebody look out! I'll have no mercy on anybody that's interfered with her--and what else can it be?
I wish I'd never left the town!" "Aye, well, we'll soon be back in it," he said, consolingly.

"And we'll hope to find better news.

I wish Murray had said more; it's a mistake to frighten folk in that way--he's said just too much and just too little." It was a fast express that we caught for Berwick, and we were not long in covering the distance, but it seemed like ages to me, and the rest of them failed to get a word out of my lips during the whole time.

And my heart was in my mouth when, as we ran into Berwick station, I saw Chisholm and Andrew Dunlop on the platform waiting us.

Folk that have had bad news are always in a state of fearing to receive worse, and I dreaded what they might have come to the station to tell us.