"Has anybody thought of going back to Government House?" asked the Sheriff.
"I went there first," said Magnus.
"And to the lake?"
"I went there next."
"And the jetty?"
"I went to the jetty also. But I don't believe Thora has destroyed herself," said Magnus.
"Then she has died of exhaustion by this time and it's all the same in any case," said Anna.
"She's in her stocking feet too--see," said Aunt Margret, showing the slippers which Thora had left up-stairs, and falling to kissing and weeping over them.
"There's one chance left--she may have tried to follow her husband," said Magnus.
"So far, and without a horse?" said the Sheriff.