"You, Laura! What nonsense!"
"Yes, I know; but still it is there."
"An over-excited brain, that is all. Who is down stairs now?"
"Sibyl Campbell and Mrs. Brantwell. Mrs. Tom and Mr. Brantwell have gone to the magistrate's."
"I think you said Sibyl Campbell came with Mrs. Tom. Was she on the island last night?"
"Yes; she went there about dark."
"What! in all that storm?"
"Yes, I believe so."
"What could have taken her there?" asked Courtney, who scarcely knew what his own object was in asking these questions, except it was to keep his mind from dwelling on what he had done.
"I do not know. Oh, yes! now I recollect; it was a note brought her by her brother; and, strangely enough, from Christie herself. She seemed very much agitated upon receiving it, and insisted on going immediately to the isle, in spite of the storm."