A JUDGEMENT Let them fight it out, friend.

Things have gone too far, God must judge the couple: leave them as they are--_Browning_ I made as if I would follow the others, not wishing to see what I must see if I stayed behind, and knowing that I was powerless to bend Elzevir from his purpose.

But he called me back and bade me wait with him, for that I might be useful by and by.

So I waited, but was only able to make a dreadful guess at how I might be of use, and feared the worst.
Maskew sat on the sward with his hands lashed tight behind his back, and his feet tied in front.

They had set him with his shoulders against a great block of weather-worn stone that was half-buried and half-stuck up out of the turf.