The storm will be upon us before the ladies get to the shore, I fear." "Then they had better take the other route." Mr.Randolph in haste despatched one of the men to recall the fleeing members of the party, and bring them, round by the other road to the house.

But before that, the doctor had put Daisy in her chair, and with Logan at the other end of it had set off to reach shelter.

It grew very dark; and it was sultrily still in the woods.

Not a leaf trembled on its stem.

The steps of the two chair-bearers sounded ominously in the entire hush of everything.