" He turned his horse to ride back, but at that moment he caught the weird, the unearthly note of Dan's whistling.

"But we must each of us dree his own weird," he proceeded, with wonderful sweetness, when Aaron did not answer.

I wasn't in business"he gave a weird laugh"for the health of my employees!

And who, when listening to the echoes of the chambers of the restless sea when deep calleth unto deep, does not hear amid them some weird and haunting refrain like Leland's sea song?

"An' ye'll bear me out," he shouted, "that there's them wha' hear these words now shall meet their weirds ere a hunter's moon is wasted!" He laughed his insane laugh and, throwing his rifle over his shoulder, halted, facing us.