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120 ground; he stared at Rose, to whom the Doctor said: "Who, Miss Armiger, was with her?"

All her lividness wondered. "When was it?"

"God knows! She was there—against the bridge."

"Against the bridge—where I passed just now? I saw nothing!" Rose jerked, while Tony dumbly closed his eyes.

"I came over because she wasn't at the house, and—from the bank—there she was. I reached her—with the boat, with a push. She might have been half an hour"

"It was half an hour ago she took her!" Rose broke in. "She's not there?"

The Doctor looked at her hard. "Of whom do you speak?"

"Why, of Miss Martle—whose hands are never off her." Rose's mask was the mask of Medusa. "What has become of Miss Martle?"

Dr. Ramage turned with the question to Tony, whose eyes, open now, were half out of his head. "What has become of her?"

"She's not there?" Tony articulated.

"There's no one there."

"Not Dennis?" sprang bewilderedly from Rose.