He fled.

A few minutes later the gentleman emerged, to find his horse gone, himself deserted.

Cursing, he struck off down the glen in pursuit of his friend, and that was the last she saw of him.

Not long afterward she heard shooting in the Gap and sent her grandson to see if anything could have happened to her late visitor, who, it seems, owed her one hundred gavvos as a forfeit of some sort.
The further prosecution of the search was left to Colonel Quinnox and his men.

Loraine, shuddering, but resolute, had witnessed the ransacking of the hut, had urged the arrest of the hag, and had come away disheartened but satisfied that the woman had told them the truth.
Quinnox's theory was accepted by all.