We were obliged to shut him in the stables." "But Feargus ought to have reached here by this time," I was beginning.
I was stopped because I found Angus Macayre almost at my elbow.

He had that moment come out of the library.

He put his hand on my arm.
"Will ye come with me ?" he said, and led me back to the room he had just left.

He kept his hand on my arm when we all stood together inside, Hector and I looking at him in wondering question.

He was going to tell me something--we both saw that.
"It is a sad thing you have to hear," he said.