"What does this mean ?" he said faintly.
"'What does it mean!'" cried Helen, in agony.

"Don't you see?
A legacy! The poor thing has divided his little all.

Oh, my heart! What has become of him ?" Then, with one of those inspirations her sex have, she cried, "Ah! Cooper's grave!" Hazel, though not so quick as she was, caught her meaning at a word, and flew down the slope to the seashore.

The tide was out.

A long irregular track of footsteps indented the sand.