But there are other things whereof Emlyn has spoken to me.

She said--ah! she said my husband, whom I thought slain and buried, in truth was only wounded and not buried, but shipped over-sea.

Tell me that story, friend, omitting nothing, but swiftly for our time is short.

I thirst to hear it from your own lips." So in his slow, wandering way he told her, word by word, all that he had seen, all that he had learned, and the sum of it was that Sir Christopher had been shipped abroad upon the _Great Yarmouth_, sorely wounded but not dead, and that with him had sailed Jeffrey Stokes and the monk Martin.
"That's ten months gone," said Cicely.

"Has naught been heard of this ship?
By now she should be home again." Thomas hesitated, then answered-- "No tidings came of her from Spain.