Ay, and he had a girl with him." I sat upright with a start.

"Where is he now ?" I asked.
"I saw him last at Middleton's Ford.

I think he was going down the river.

I warned him this was no place for parsons and women, but he just laughed at me.

It's time he was back in the Tidewater." So long as they were homeward-bound I did not care; but it gave me a queer fluttering of the heart to think that Elspeth but yesterday should have been near this perilous Border.