I guess he was pretty well up to his neck in business when that fellow Correy set up his shout.

And have you noticed that he's a bit deaf, which is the reason, perhaps, why he was not sooner on the scene ?" "No, I hadn't noticed.

Anyone else at this end ?" "Only the young couple I speak of." Mr.Gryce gave them a second look.

They were by many paces farther from the pedestal from behind which the bow had been flung back of the tapestry than would quite fit in with the theory he had formed, and by means of which he hoped to single out the person who had sent the deadly arrow.

But then, under the stress of fear, people can move very swiftly; and besides, what guarantee did he have that these poor, frightened creatures had located themselves with all the honesty the occasion demanded?
According to Sweetwater there was nobody sufficiently near to notice where they had been at the critical instant, or where they were now.