The warnings of his mother and Hayoue he had treasured deeply, and these warnings kept him away from the home of Mitsha.

Still he longed to go there.

Every evening since the one on which Say encouraged him to go, he had determined to pay the first regular visit, but as often as the time came his courage had abandoned him and he had not gone.

And yet he must either go or give up; this he realized plainly.

There might be a possibility of some other youth attempting the same, and then he would be too late, perhaps.