Some one--the man, of course--was returning.
"May fire burn his eyes for ever! He would talk with Kald, then go again among them all, and so pass out unsuspected and safe.

For who but I--who but I could say he did it?
And I--what is my proof?
Only the words which I speak." A scornful, fateful smile passed over his face.

"'Hast thou never killed a man ?' said Kaid.

'Never,' said he--'by the goodness of God, never!' The voice of Him of Galilee, the hand of Cain, the craft of Jael.

But God is with the patient." He went hastily and noiselessly-his footfall was light for so heavy a man-through the large room to the farther side from that by which David and Kaid had first entered.