"What possessed the fellow ?" "I couldn't stop him.

I didn't know how." She looked at her three companions, slowly and with growing terror, from one face to another.
Minnie's eyes were wide and she had unconsciously grasped Lige's arm; the young man was looking straight before him; the judge got up and walked nervously back and forth.

Helen rose to her feet swiftly and went toward the old man, her hands pressed to her bosom.
"Ah!" she cried out, sharply, "I had forgotten _that_! You don't think they--you don't think----" "I know what I think," Lige broke in; "I think I'd ought to be hanged for letting him out of my sight.

Maybe it's all right; maybe he turned and started right back for town--and got there.

But I had no business to leave him, and if I can I'll catch up with him yet." He went to the front door, and, opening it, let in a tornado of wind and flood of water that beat him back; sheets of rain blew in horizontally, in spite of the porch beyond.
Briscoe followed him.