Are you coming with me ?" he asked of the girl, with a set look in his eyes.

"No.

I'm going back to my sister," she answered.
"If he leaves me--if he joins Belloc!" the old man muttered, and again his face flushed.
A few moments afterwards the girl watched him till he disappeared up the hill.
"I don't believe Carnac will do it," she said to herself.

"He's got the sense, the brains, and the energy; but he won't do it." She heard a voice behind her, and turned.

It was the deformed but potent Denzil.