Excerpt from Oswald Cray, Vol. 2 of 3
Causing the sweeping crape to be taken from his hat, for he preferred to depart on foot, Oswald Cray proceeded through the town to the house of his brother. Just as he reached the door, Mark rode up on horseback and leaped off with a hasty spring, throwing his bridle to the man who waited.
"Of course I am too late!" he exclaimed.
"Of course you are, by pretty near two hours. How did it happen, Mark?"
"Well - I can hardly tell how it happened," was the answer of Mark. "I had a patient to see in the country - more than one, in fact - and I thought I could do it all first and be back in time. But I suppose I must have stayed later than I purposed, for before I was ready to return I found it was half-past eleven, and the funeral no doubt over. And then 1 did not hurry myself."
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