Laura laughingly told the story of the supposed spirit, adding that it must have been a pure hallucination on the part of the boy.
"Well, anyhow, I'll not send him with you if he's takin' to makin' a fool of himself. It wouldn't do, you know," said John.
"And really, uncle, we need no one at all as an outrider," said Laura.
After an early and substantial dinner, Alden and Laura took leave of their kind relatives and entered the pony-carriage, whose dashing little grays, driven by old Jerome, were to take them to Blue Cliffs.
But we must precede them thither, to find out what it was that had driven Mary Grey from the house in such very great haste.
Chapter VII.
A STARTLING EVENT.
What see you in these papers, that you lose
So much of your complexion? Look you how you change!
Your cheeks are paper!—why, what hear you there
That hath so cowarded and chased your blood
Out of appearance?