Chapter 32
WALY, WALY Clarence and Martyn walked over to Hillside the first thing the next morning to inquire for the two sisters. As to one, they were quickly reassured, for Anne was in the porch feeding the doves, and no sooner did she see them than out she flew, and was clinging round Martyn's neck, her hat falling back as she kissed him on both cheeks, with an eagerness that made him, as Clarence reported, turn the colour of a lobster, and look shy, not to say sheepish, while she exclaimed, ' Oh, Martyn! mamma says she never thanked you, for you really and truly did save my life, and I am so glad it was you-- ' 'It was not I, it was Ellen,' gruffly muttered Martyn. 'Oh yes! but papa says I should have been smothered in that horrid mud, before Ellen could get to me if you had not pulled me up d
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