How absurdly easy it is for a legend to
arise in a lonely countryside! I examined him
as to the reasons for his weird belief. It seems
that from time to time sheep have been miss-
ing from the fields, carried bodily away, ac-
cording to Armitage. That they could have
wandered away of their own accord and
disappeared among the mountains was an
explanation to which he would not listen.
On one occasion a pool of blood had been
found, and some tufts of wool.

Chapter 1