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What shall we do? What _can_ we do?"
"Go and leave me and come back--no, no, not that either; don't leave
me in this place," said Liza, crying piteously and moaning with the
pain of a sprained foot.
"Impossible," said Rotha. "I might never find you again on this
pathless fell."
"Oh, that unlucky stone!" whimpered Liza, "I'm bewitched, surely. It's
that Mother Garth--"
"Ah, he sees us," said Rotha. She was standing on a piece of rock and
waving a scarf in the wind. "Yes, he sees us and answers. But what
will he understand by that? O dear! O dear! Would that I could make
Willy see, or Robbie--perhaps _they_ would know. Where can father be?
O where?"
A terrible sense of powerlessness came upon Rotha as she stood beside
her prostrate companion within sight of the goal she had labored to
gain, and the strong-hearted girl burst into a flood of tears.

VIII.
Yes, from the head of the pass Ralph Ray saw the scarf that was waved
by Rotha, but he was too far away to recognize the girls.
"Two women, and one of them lying," he thought; "there has been an
accident.


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