I have heard nought fresh, but that there was indeed a priest with the men who took Owen away." "Well, we guessed as much as that; but I tell you plainly, Oswald, that I fear what may be in store for us in that place.

Nona is not the girl to fancy things, and I know that her dreams must have been terrible to her.

And then you also--" "I fear, too," I said.

"But I do not think that anything will be worse than this long uncertainty.

Well, that is to be seen.