CHAPTER XIX
HOW JOANNA CHANGED HER MIND
"So there's an end o' Tressady and Mings and their fellows, comrade!" said Resolution, staring away into distant haze where showed the topsails of the Vengeance already hull down. "And God's will be done, says I, though here be we as must go solitary awhile and Joanna sick to death, comrade."
"Resolution," said I, staring up at his grim figure, "she schemed to lure
Tressady to his death?"
"Aye, she did, brother. What other way was there? She hath wit womanish and nimble—"
"She smote him in the shadows—"
"Most true, friend! She hath a man's will and determination!"
"He had no chance—"
"Never a whit, Martin! She is swift as God's lightning and as infallible. Roger Tressady was an evil man and the evil within him she used to destroy him and all very right and proper! And now she lieth sick in the cave yonder and calls for you, brother."
So I arose and coming within the cave found Joanna outstretched upon a rough bed contrived of fern and the boat-cloaks.