His great felt hat drooped half across his face, and hid his eyes from me; but there was no mistaking the stern square jaw and the close even lips.

I ran toward him and called him by name.

In a moment he was off his beast, and we embraced tenderly.
"Have you seen her ?" were the first words he spoke.

I nodded, and hurried him into the house where I lived, fearful lest some mischance should bring the party from the castle riding by.

He sent his man with the mules to the inn, and when we were at last alone together he threw himself into a chair, and took off his hat.
Nino too was changed in the two months that had passed.