Don't be afraid, Miss Lorne--nobody's going to hurt you." Then a pocket torch spat out a sudden ray of light; and by it both the half-throttled boy and the wholly frightened girl could see the man who had thus intruded himself upon their notice.
"Oh, it is you--it is you again, Mr.Cleek ?" said Ailsa with something between a laugh and a sigh of relief as she recognized him.
"Yes, it is I.I have been behind you ever since you left the house in Bardon Road.

It was rash of you to cross the heath at this time and in this weather.

I rather fancied that something of this kind would be likely to happen, and so took the liberty of following you." "Then it was you I heard behind me ?" "It was I--yes.

I shouldn't have intruded myself upon your notice if you hadn't called out.

A moment, please.