Marlanx waited another day in Balak, permitting Josepha's father to come on to Edelweiss with a message for me and to see his daughter.

He--" "And Josepha's father saw Brutus in Edelweiss ?" "No.

But he did see him going into Balak as he left for Edelweiss that morning.

He wore a disguise, but Jacob says he could not be mistaken.
Moreover, he was accompanied by several men whom he recognised as Graustark mountaineers and hunters of rather unsavoury reputation.

They left Brutus at the gates of Balak and went off into the hills.