i lost no time of course in telling my mother all that i knew,
and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position,
something must speedily be resolved upon,
and it occured to us at last to go forth together and seek help in the neighboring hamlet,
no sooner said than done, bare headed as we were, we ran out at once in the gathering evening and the frosty fog,
the hamlet lay not many hundred yards away, though out of view on the other side of the next cove,
and what greatly encouraged me --- it was in an opposite direction from that once the blind man had made his appearance,
and i shall never forget how much i was cheered to see the yellow shining doors and windows,
but that has approved was the best of the help we were likely to get in that quarter,
for you would have thought men would have been ashamed of themselves,
for no soul would consent to return with us