19/40 They were in a road ridged with grass and flanked by bushes. One end ran east into a wooded valley, the other debouched on the highway a few feet to the right of the tavern. "The lead towards the waterfall was a feint. It was in this direction she fled, and it is from this point that search must be made for her." Ransom, greatly perturbed, for this possibility of secret flight opened vistas of as much mystery, if not of as much suffering, as her death in the river, glanced at the sodden ground under their feet, and thus along the lane to where it lost itself from view among the trees. "A hundred people must have come this way since early morning." "It's a short cut from the Ferry. |