“I am very sorry for that, Daddy. I fear I lost my head. I am ashamed of the way I acted, and of what I said. Will you not forgive me?”
“Yes, my dear. We were both pretty severe. We are living too much on our nerves of late.”
“Now, that the past is cleared up, tell me what is troubling you to-night.”
“You say you have been sitting here for a long while?”
“Since twilight. It didn’t seem so long, though.”
“Did you see anything strange, or hear anything familiar?”
“I saw Uncle Josiah’s boat leave the harbor.”
“Didn’t it strike you as being rather odd that he should be going out this time of night, and in such a storm? He went out last night, too.”
“Yes, it did seem very strange to me.”
“Beth?” The Elder’s voice wavered.