What can I do to convince you?
Dan, you'll drive me mad!" He made no answer, and if the girl wished him to stay now seemed the time for persuasion; but she gave up the argument suddenly.

She turned away, and Vic saw in her face the same desperate, helpless look as that of a boy who cannot swim, beyond his depth in the river.

There was no sign of tears; they might come afterwards.
What had come over them?
This desperation in Kate, this touch of anxiety in the very horse and the wolf-dog?
Vic forgot his own danger while he stared and it seemed to him that the spark of change had come from Barry.

There was something in his eyes which Vic found hard to meet.
"The moment you came I knew you brought bad luck with you!" cried Kate.
"He brought you in bleeding.

He saved you and came in with blood on his hands and I guessed at the end.