And now you'll excuse me if I act according to my own discretion.' Without another word he walked up the veranda and down the few steps connecting it with the Old Humpey.

She heard him go into his office, and presently the door of it slammed behind him.

She knew that he was going to the culprits in the hide-house, and wondered what punishment he would mete unto them.

Had he gone to the office for his gun?
At this moment, anything seemed possible to Lady Bridget's heated temper and excited imagination.
She stood waiting, absorbed in her fears, so abstracted from her ordinary outside surroundings that she was unaware of the approach of two horsemen from the Gully Crossing.

They did not stop at the garden gate, but made for the usual station entrance at the back.