She will be needing Doctor Cadmus if this keeps on, as sure as anything." "Well, what is it you want to tell me, Horatio ?" demanded Hugh, not even taking the trouble to drop down into the chair the owner of the "den" shoved toward him; for it seemed as though he must soon be on the jump--there was evidently something hanging over their heads, which would be needing prompt attention.
"Why, it's just this, Hugh," began the other.

"K.

K.took a foolish notion he'd like to say he'd gone over the full course just for practice.

And, Hugh.

he told me he meant to make use of the short-cut that crosses the old haunted quarry!" Hugh started, and looked serious.
"Then, if anything has happened to K.K., it must have been while he was crossing that mile tract between the two main roads," he went on to say, without hesitation.