She has been gone for more than an hour, and I wish you would take a boat and go ashore, find out how the Major is, and bring me back word at once.

He is at Dr.Maddison's.

You know the house." The skipper hurried away with a serious face.

A little more than a minute after he had left the cabin Lady Greendale heard the rattle of the blocks of the falls.

The boat was little more than half an hour away.