ed curse into a curse indeed.

I went to meet them.

'I promised to bring her livin' mullo,' said Sinfi, 'and I have kept
my word, and now we are all going up to the top together.'

Winnie at once proceeded to pack up the breakfast things in Sinfi's
basket. While she was doing this Sinfi and I went to the side of the
llyn.

'Sinfi, I know all--all you have done for Winnie, all you have done
for me.'

'You know about me takin' the cuss?' she said in astonishment.
'Gorgio cuss can't touch Romany, they say, but it did touch me. I wur
very bad, brother. Howsomedever, it's all gone now. But how did you
come to know about it? Winnie don't know herself, so she couldn't ha'
told you; and I promised Mr. D'Arcy that if ever I wur to see you
anywheres I wouldn't talk about it--leaseways not till he could tell
you hisself or write to you full.'

'Winnie does not know about it,' I said, 'but I do. I know that in
order to save her life--in order to save us both--you allowed her
illness to pass on to you, at your own peril. But you mustn't talk of
its being a curse, Sinfi. It was just an illness like any other
illness, and the doctor passed it on to you in the same way that
doctors sometimes do pass on such illnesses. Doctors can't cure
curses, you know. You will soon be quite well again, and then you
will forget all about what you call the curse.'

'I'm well enough now, brother; but see, Winnie has packed the things,
and she's waiting to go up.'

We then began the ascent.

Ah, that ascent! I wish I had time and space to describe it. Up the
same path we went which Sinfi and I had followed on that memorable
morning when my heart was as sad as it was buoyant now.

Reaching the top, we sat down in the hut and made our simple
luncheon. Winnie was a great favourite with the people there, and
she could not get away from them for a long time. We went down to
Bwlch Glas, and there we stood gazing at the path that leads to
Llanberis.

I had not observed, but Winnie evidently had, that Sinfi wanted to
speak to me alone; for she wandered away pretending to be looking
for a certain landmark which she remembered; and Sinfi and I were
left together.

'Brother,' said Sinfi, 'I ain't a-goin' to Llanberis an' Carnarvon
with you two. You take that path; I take this.'

She pointed to the two downward paths.

'Surely you are not going to leave us at a moment like this?' I said.

'That's jist what I am a-goin' to do,' she said. 'This