also, as she had her tears.

Half an hour later she was attracted by the appearance from the
windows of certain straggling blue spots on the upland that seemed
moving diagonally towards the Marsh. She did not know that it was
Calvert's second "detail" joining him, but believed for a moment
that he had not yet departed, and was strangely relieved. Still
later the frequent disturbed cries of coot, heron, and marsh-hen,
recognizing the presence of unusual invaders of their solitude,
distracted her yet more, and forced her at last with increasing
color and an uneasy sense of shyness to steal out to the gallery
for a swift furtive survey of the Marsh. But an utterly unexpected
sight met her eyes, and kept her motionless.

The birds were rising everywhere and drifting away with querulous
perturbation before a small but augmented blue detachment that was
moving with monotonous regularity towards the point of bushes where
she had seen the young officer previously disappear. In their
midst, between two soldiers with fixed bayonets, marched the man
whom even at that distance she instantly recognized as the deserter
of the preceding night, in the very clothes she had given him. To
complete her consternation, a little to the right marched the young
officer also, but accompanied by, and apparently on the most
amicable terms with, Jim--her own brother!

To forget all else and dart down the steps, flying towards the
point of bushes, scarcely knowing why or what she was doing, was to
Maggie the impulse and work of a moment. When she had reached it
the party were not twenty paces away. But here a shyness and
hesitation again seized her, and she shrank back in the bushes with