CHAPTER IV.
THE DESOLATED HOME.
“For we two, face to face,
God knows are further parted
Than were a whole world’s space
Between.”
“Lost utterly from home and me,
Lonely, regretful and remote.”
Jan now began to hang all day about Ragon Torr’s, and to make friends with men as purposeless as himself. He drank more and more, and was the leader in all the dances and merry-makings with which Shetlanders beguile their long winter. He was very soon deep in Torr’s debt, and this circumstance carried him the next step forward on an evil road.