30/34 Back in England he had worshipped a young girl. Like the others, she detested him; and yet he loved her and would have died for her. And in the wreck of the sleeper he found her and her father--both dead. He brought her out, and when no one was near carried her through the night to his horse. The knowledge that he had killed her--the only creature in the world that he loved--brought him back to sanity. |