says. So he turned, and went into the house. There was no one ever saw him again.
"Now the boat ran ashore on the beach, and the tired man got out of her, just by those rocks; and he was tired indeed. He could scarce climb up that bank of shingle. So Carr looks hard at him. 'Why,' he says, 'it's Johnny O'Hara, the piper's boy, that was left behind in Scotland. What news, Johnny!' he says. So Johnny comes near up to him, and, 'Bad news,' he says. 'It's bad news I'm bringing you this day. Your man is killed,' he says. 'Andy MacDonnell is killed,' he says. 'He was killed by the Scotch the day he was to have come home. And I've been a prisoner ever since.' So Carr got up on his feet, and he calls out 'Andy'; but no one ever came. And Clelia called out 'Andy'; but no one ever answered. And they went into the castle, but no Andy was there, and then they knew that they'd been living with a dragon-man, and that the real Andy had been dead a year. When Clelia knew that she'd been living with a dragon-man, she went upstairs to her room, and took out a kind of dirk she had, with a sharp point on it, and she said a
