Yet he only looked at her gravely, and then seemed to sleep again.
The girl sprang upright upon the bank and wrung her hands together.

It came to her with sudden clearness what had been done.

Had Toyner told his tale, she could hardly have known it more clearly.

Her father, had tried to murder Bart; her father had tied him in his own place; it was her father who had escaped alone with the boat.

It was he himself, and no apparition, who had peered in upon her through the window.