It was between three and four when he reached Gangoil, and he found that the party of horsemen had just entered the yard before him.

The sugar planter was so weak that he could hardly get off his horse.
The two ladies were still watching when the cavalcade arrived, though it was then between three and four in the morning.

It was Harry's custom on such occasions to ride up to the little gate close to the veranda, and there to hang his bridle till some one should take his horse away; but on this occasion he and the others rode into the yard.

Seeing this, Mrs.Heathcote and her sister went through the house, and soon learned how things were.

Mr.Medlicot, from the mill, had come with a bone broken, and it was their duty to nurse him till a doctor could be procured from Maryborough.