He rose up, and would have slunk off, but she caught him by the arm. He
shook her away, but there was no escape. He looked around like a hunted
animal. She sat down by his side, and he was a prisoner.

"Come," Douglas whispered.

They rose up and went off together.



CHAPTER XXX

DAVID AND JOAN

"Joan."

"Well, David?"

"You have had your way with me. I have suffered you to bring me here,
to make me eat and drink. Now I am ready to go.

"But where? You do not look as though you had any settled lodging. We
can find you a room here for awhile. You have not told me yet how it is
that you are alive after all."

He pushed back a mass of tangled hair and looked at her grimly.

"So it was Father who told you that I was dead, eh?"