"How can that be ?" she exclaimed.

"He has absolutely no money and he never goes off our land." "He has no need," Trent answered bitterly.

"There are men in Attra who want him dead, and they have been doing their best to hurry him off.

I caught a Kru boy bringing him gin this afternoon.

Evidently it has been a regular thing." "I am very sorry indeed to hear this," the woman said, "and I am sure my husband will be too.