Presently she heaved a sort of sigh, and opened her eyes; and with that she seemed to recollect herself, and asked what was in the pond.

I left her and went off to it, meeting Dan Duff--and we found it was Rachel Frost.

Dan, he set on to howl, and wouldn't stay, and I went for the nearest help, and got her out.

That's all, sir." "Was she already dead ?" "Well, sir, when you first get a person out of the water it's hard to say whether they be dead or not.

She seemed dead, but perhaps if there had been means right at hand, she might have been brought-to again." A moan of pain from old Matthew.