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He looked at me with a frown "Make not bad worse, Captain Percy," he said sternly

I laughed "It is h thethat the Due Return hath coer trespass on your Honor's ti hi at the fire

Without, the world was bathed in the glow of a nificent sunset Clouds, dark purple and dark cri threateningly over the darkening land beneath In the east loomed more pallid masses, and from the bastions of the east to the bastions of the ent hurrying, wind-driven cloudless, dark in the east, red in the west There was a high wind, and the river, where it was not reddened by the sunset, was lividly green "A storuest house, there cahter and a boisterous drinking catch sung by ave others to drink, to the orders which the Due Return should bring The reat rooht and fired the fresh torches, and found I was not its sole occupant On the hearth, the ashes of the dead fire touching her skirts, sat Mistress Jocelyn Percy, her ar upon a low stool, and her head pillowed upon them Her face was not hidden: it was cold and pure and still, like carven azed at her a ht wood to the fire and ain

"Where is Rolfe?" I asked at last

"He would have stayed," she answered, "but Ito theleaned her forehead against the bars, and looked out upon the wild sky and the hurrying river "I would I were alone," she said in a low voice and with a catch of her breath As she stood there in the twilight by the , I knew that she eeping, though her pride strove to keep that knowledge from me My heart ached for her, and I knew not how to comfort her At last she turned A pasty and stoup of ere upon the table

"You are tired and shaken," I said, "and you th Come, eat and drink"