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Rufus Myrthe found himself a person of considerable importance that evening. In the drawing-room he was surrounded by the present inmates of the Hall, clamouring eagerly for more particulars about the mysterious Inn and the Silent Woman. However, a fit of reticence had overtaken him, and he would add nothing more to the bare outlines of the story already given.
His uncanny experiences the night of the woman's death; the weird voice whose cry had echoed over the moor on the occasion of his visit to the deserted mine, and the existence and present conditions of Molly Udale, he kept to himself. He had no wish to submit the girl to prying eyes, or make his championship of her forlorn condition the subject for curious tongues and idle speculations.