Dan Duff howled in concert.

The passages took up the sounds and echoed them; and Mrs.Verner, Frederick Massingbird, and Tynn came hastening forth.

Mr.Verner followed, feeble, and leaning on his stick.

Frederick Massingbird seized upon the boy, questioning sharply.
"Rachel Frost's a-drowned in the Willow Pond," he reiterated.

"I see'd her." A moment of pause, of startled suspense, and then they flew off, men and women, as with one accord, Frederick Massingbird leading the van.