I fear the result of this fall will be fatal." He needed no second bidding; he was off like the wind.

Sir Galahad sprung over the ground, and reached Hunsden in an incredibly short time.

A flying figure, in wild alarm, came down the avenue to meet him.
"Oh, Sir Everard!" Harrie panted, in affright, "where is papa?
He left to go to Kingsland Court, and Starlight has come galloping back riderless.

Something awful has happened, I know!" His man's heart burned within him.

He wanted to catch her in his arms, to hold her there forever--to shield her from all the world and all worldly sorrow.
Something of what he felt must have shone in his ardent eyes.