"But what other injuries has she sustained?"
"It is impossible to say just at present. She evidently fell under the horse. The wonder is she's alive at all."
"I suppose nobody knows how it happened?" Sir John questioned after a pause.
"Well, I believe nobody saw the accident, though young Ralph Penlogan was near the spot at the time—and a fortunate thing too, or she might have remained where she fell till midnight."
"You have seen the young man?"
"He had carried her in his arms from Treliskey Plantation to the junction of the high road."
"Without assistance?"
"Without assistance. What else could he do? There was not a soul near the spot. Since you closed the road through the plantation, it is never used now, except by the few people to whom you have granted the right of way."
"So young Penlogan was in the plantation, was he?"
"I really don't know. He may have been on the common."