Ula looked at him as if she could hardly believe what he was saying and he went on,
“I was frantic, absolutely frantic when no one could find you!”
“But – you looked?”
“Of course I looked!” he replied. “I searched the whole countryside, the woods, the fields, the villages, all day, every day, until Willy told me, what I should have thought of myself, that you would have come home.”
“Willy – told you?”
“It was something you said to him about pretending at night to be back in your home and how one day you would come back.”
“So you found me.”
The words were redolent with relief.
Then she gave a little cry of fear.
“Uncle Lionel! He has already – sent men here to look – for me and perhaps they will – come again. You must hide me – please – you don’t – understand – he has the – law on
