Nada Hawkins wasn't with him, and he didn't say who had died and who hadn't.

But I think--" She stopped as the bearded man turned toward her.
"You think what ?" demanded Jolly Roger, stepping half into the room.
"I think," said the woman, "that she died along with the others.

Anyway, Jed Hawkins' witch-woman was burned trying to make for the lake, and little of her was left." The man with the lamp made a movement as if to close the door.
"That's all we know," he growled.
"For God's sake--don't!" entreated Jolly Roger, barring the door with his arm.

"Surely there were some who escaped from Cragg's Ridge and beyond!" "Mebby a half, mebby less," said the man.

"I tell you it burned like hell, and the worst of it came in the middle of the night with a wind behind it that blew a hurricane.