10/32 "Methought I saw thee not long since with thy father and brother and the servants. How comes it thou art now alone ?" "I saw thee not," answered Julian, without attempting to reply to the question. I was telling my beads out here in the forest. Thou didst pass me by all unknowing; but I was nigh thy path the while nevertheless. Whither--" "That is something strange," remarked the boy, affecting not to hear the commencement of another question; "for I could be sworn that not a squirrel or field mouse crosses my path but that I mark him down. |