Chapter X

Slow she gone the top end of one’s spyglass right back together this new arc it got traveled. She receive the new speck and you can spotted they. It actually was a man, striding along the meadow house, a half kilometer outside of the parsonage, and rushing toward this new beach. She saw him climb up a leading dune, dive a fence, get across an alternate profession last but not least fade in the grove out of pines to your edge of the fresh bluff of the coastline.

The guy was John Ellery, this new minister. Obviously, he had not moved house, nor had he taken the new short-cut. Rather he’d stepped downtown quite a distance then turned directly into get across the new areas and functions their long ago.

Annabel establish the brand new glass and you can, heedless regarding their father’s calls, seated convinced. The newest minister had purposely deceived their particular. More than one, he previously visited big difficulties to end observation. As to the reasons got the guy done it? Got he done exactly the same thing toward most other Sunday afternoons? Is here any real reasons why the guy insisted to the leaving the brand new family daily at the four-o’clock?

Annabel didn’t discover. Their unique sight clicked and her clear has checked crisper yet just like the she originated the fresh measures into attic. She don’t discover; however, she intended to discover. Continue reading →