TEE SILVER FOX 53 



talk to the others, was conscious of a new- 

 found bitterness. 



" I say, Slaney ! " Lady Susan called out, 

 " I want you to talk sense to your friend, 

 Danny-O. The old pig refuses to draw that 

 gorse above the railway— ^/ott know," turn- 

 ing to Glasgow, " that place where the 

 cutting is ; he said it was an unlucky place, 

 and that the fox there was a witch ! Such 

 rot!" 



Slaney did not answer at once. There 

 are some people for whom the limits of the 

 possible seem to be set farther out than for 

 the rest of the world. They see and hear 

 things inexplicable ; for them the darkened 

 glass is less dark, to them all things are 

 possible. It cannot be called superstition — 

 being neither ignorant dread nor self-inter- 

 ested faith ; it seems like the possession of 

 another sense — imperfect, yet distinct from 

 all others. Slaney had seen and heard — 

 between the sunset and the dawn — things 

 not easily accounted for ; she herself ac- 

 cepted them without fear ; but she knew — 



