Chapter 13 READING THE RUNES.

"Words from the long far-away

Link the dim past with to-day."

ISOBEL descended from the headland in the lowest of spirits. To have quarrelled with Belle, even in a just cause, was a disaster such as she had never contemplated, and for a moment she was half inclined to run after her friend and seek a reconciliation at any cost. Her pride, howe