Nor is it a matter of more than a few days' travel to reach the outlying townships.

I have often said I would go and visit our sisters and friends, but I have never done so.

Alas that I should go at last with such heavy tidings!" "Heavy tidings indeed," said Fritz, with sympathy; "yet we will avenge these treacherous murders upon those who have brought them to pass." "That will not restore the dead to life," said Humphrey mournfully.
"No, but it will ease the burning heart of its load of rage and vengeance." Humphrey's eyes turned for a moment towards his sleeping brother.
He knew how welcome would be such words to him--that is, if he awoke from his fever dreams in the same mood as they had found him.
"And yet," said Julian thoughtfully, "we have been taught by our fathers that brothers should live at peace together, even as we in our valley lived long at peace with all and with one another.

So long as the memory of our venerable Father remained alive there was all harmony and concord, and every man sought his brother's well being as earnestly as his own." "Can you remember the holy man ?" asked Humphrey, with interest.
"No; but my father remembered him well.

He was well grown towards manhood before the venerable old man died at a great age.