He bade them lift the dead, and lay him in the hollow of the glade under fallen branches until they could return and give him burial. Then, as they went on their way, he told the tale of his little maid; and when the telling was ended, the village they had come to succour was in sight, and lo! they saw it through a mist.
CHAPTER VIII - “BEHOLD THE FIELDS ARE WHITE”THE PRIOR’S HEART WAS ready, and it seemed to him as he passed up the village and saw the huddled, helpless people, that his little maid led him by the hand.
Brother Simon, Brother Leo, and the novices turned aside to speak comfort and carry succour to the sick and fearful, and to bury the dead; for three unshriven souls had passed to judgment and mercy. Hilarius made straight for the ale-house.
As he crossed the green, the do
