In a moment he turned to her, and a current of amusement seemed to cross his mind and gleamed out of his blue eyes as he lifted them to hers.

"I believe when I saw you I came to you for protection." The light from pink tracts of sunset fell brightly upon field and river, but this couple did not notice it at all.
"There is no bogie so fearful as the unknown," she cried.

"You frightened me, Mr.Trenholme." "There is no bogie in the case," he said, "nor ghost I suppose; but I saw someone.

I don't know how to tell you; it begins so far back, and I may alarm you when I tell you that there must be someone in this neighbourhood of yours who has no right to be here." Then to her eager listening he told the story that he had once written to his brother, and added to it the unlooked for experience of the last half-hour.

His relation lacked clearness of construction.