Sentence:  <WSD>Carried</WSD> somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.