Chapter Four'We'll stay the night here,' Kate decided. 'There's not much point in going anywhere at this time. Tomorrow we'll rise early and get to the Shelter Stone.'
'We might get all the way to the summit,' Charlie said.
'Even if we do,' Lorna pointed out, 'these two men we saw will be well on their way by now.'
Nobody except me had seen the third man. I was beginning to doubt that he had existed. Perhaps that strange woman had accompanied the men across the ford. Maybe she was merely another climber. I remembered that Bill Gilchrist had also seen a mysterious woman and wondered if it was the same one. There were too many ifs and maybes here.
Even with the blazing fire, I still felt it chilling in that room. Kate led the way in preparing for bed with laughter and high spirits, jokin
