All other things seemed less urgent, and a letter from Harry full of small worries about pictures and bric-a-brac was almost an irritation.

But he answered it in brotherly fashion and laid the responsibility so kindly on Harry himself that the careless young fellow was proudly encouraged and uplifted.
In the meantime the small cloud in the far west was casting deeper shadows of forthcoming events, but in the lovely springtime they were not very alarming.

Also in Hatton town the people relied on the Master of Hatton.

They told themselves he was doing all that could be done to ward off evil and they trusted in him.

And no one foresaw as yet how long the struggle would last.