"I was sitting in the library, and Mamie had just come from you, when we heard Mr.Carewe shout from the cupola room: 'Stand away from my daughter, Vanrevel, and take this like a dog!' Only that;--and Mamie and I ran to the window, and we saw through the dusk a man in uniform leap back from Miss Betty--they were in that little open space near the hedge.

He called out something and waved his hand, but the shot came at the same time, and he fell.

Even then I was sure, in spite of what Mamie had said, I was as sure as Robert Carewe was, that it was you.

He came and took one look--and saw--and then Nelson brought the horses and made him mount and go.

Mamie ran for the doctor, and Betty and I carried Crailey in.