He then returned to Grotait, and told him the news.

Dan was not so hardened but what he blubbered in telling it, and Grotait's eyes were moist with sympathy.
They neither of them spoke out, and said, "This upsets our design on Little." Each waited to see whether that job was to go on.

Each was ashamed to mention it now.

So it came to a standstill.
As for Little, he was so shocked by this tragedy and so anxious about its victim, that he would not go out to Cairnhope.

He came, in the evening to Dr.Amboyne, to inquire, "Can he live ?" "I can't say yet.