26/33 But he had formed his resolution. He owed much to Mr.Austin.He had come a vast distance to be at his side, and to serve him in prison, but he felt now that he could be of more use elsewhere. Moreover, he must carry a message, a warning to those who needed it sorely. One of the windows opened upon the north, and he looked intently through it trying to pierce, with the mind's eye at least, the thousand miles that lay between him and those whom he would reach with the word. Noticing the boy's gloomy face, he patted him on the head with a benignant hand and said: "Don't be down of heart, Edward, my lad. |