“I prefer not to know what he has done. Just explain to me your plan, and how I can help. You know better than I.”

“I can’t understand how comes it I can tell you; you are a strangah to all of us — and yet it seems like it is right. If I could get some clothes nobody has evah seen Frale weah — if — I could make him look different from a mountain boy, maybe he could get to some town down the mountain, and find work; but now they would meet up with him before he was halfway there.”

Thryng rose and began pacing the room. “Is there any hurry?” he demanded, stopping suddenly before her.

“Yes.”

“Then why have you waited all this time to tell me?”