“I couldn’t keep a holt of ‘em,” he sobbed.
“You shouldn’t have done it, honey. You should have let me get home as best I could.” Her face was one which could express much, passive as it had been before. “Where was Frale?”
“He took the othah ho’se and lit out. They was aftah him. They — ”
“S-sh. There, hush! You can stand now; try, Hoyle. You are a man now.”
The little fellow rose, and, perceiving Thryng for the first time, stepped shyly behind his sister. David noticed that he had a deformity which caused him to carry his head twisted stiffly to one side, and also that he had great, beautiful brown eyes, so like those of a hunted