Among them talked Mrs.
Macmurdo, who kept the shop, and the hostess of the Jardine Arms.

And there was here Jock Binning, who, for all his lameness and his crutches, could go where he wished....

But it was Gilian, crossing upon the stepping-stones, who saw Glenfernie coming by the stream with the covered form in his arms.

She met him; they went up the bank to the house together.

She had uttered one cry, but no more.
"The Kelpie's Pool," he had answered.
Jarvis Barrow came out of the door.