rom her--from dear old Adam Fairbrother," said Jason.

"Were is he?"

"At Husavik."

"Why did you not bring him with you?"

"He could not come."

"Jason, is he ill?"

"He has crossed the desert to see you, but he can go no further."

"Jason, tell me, is he dying?"

"The good old man is calling on you night and day, 'Sunlocks!' he is
crying. 'Sunlocks! my boy, my son. Sunlocks! Sunlocks!'"

"My dear father, my other father, God bless him!"

"He says he has crossed the seas to find you, and cannot die without
seeing you again. And though he knows you are here, yet in his pain
and trouble he forgets it, and cries, 'Come to me, my son, my
Sunlocks.'"

"Now, this is the hardest lot of all," said Sunlocks, and he cast
himself down on his chair. "Oh, these blind eyes! Oh, this cruel
prison! Oh, for one day of freedom! Only one day, one poor simple
day!"

And so he wept, and bemoaned his bitter fate.

Jason stood over him with many pains and misgivings at sight of the
distress he had created. And if the eye of heaven saw Jason there,
surely the suffering in his face atoned for the lie on his tongue.

"Hush, Sunlocks, hush!" he said, in a tremulous whisper. "You can
have the day you wish for; and if you cannot see, there are others to
lead you. Yes, it is true, it is true, for I have settled it. It is
all arranged, and you are to leave this place to-morrow."

Hearing this, Michael Sunlocks made first a cry of delight, and then
said after a moment, "But what of this poor old priest?"

"He is a good man, and willing to let you go," said Jason.

"But he has had warning that I may be wanted at any time," said
Sunlocks, "and though his house is a prison, he has made it a home,
and I would not do him a wrong to save my life."

"He knows that," said Jason, "and he says that you will come back to
him though death itself should be waiting to receive you."

"He is right," said Sunlocks; "and no disaster save this one could
take me from him to his peril. The good old soul! Come, let me thank
him." And with that he was making for the door.

But Jason stepped between, and said, "Nay, it isn't fair to the good
priest that we should make him a party to our enterprise. I have told
him all that he need know, and he is content. Now, let him be
ignorant of what we are doing until it is done. Then if anything
happens it will appear that you have escaped."

"But I am coming back," said Sunlocks.

"Yes, yes," said Jason,