Barbara murmured through her tears:
"Thank you, Herman."
Wolf's eyes sparkled as he watched the graceful little figure proudly leave the room.
CHAPTER XXX[ToC]
A VISION FROM THE HILLTOP
Catherine's fight with Wolf was long and bitter. For hours she struggled to force him to leave in her hands the discipline of the women members of the colony. Her tears and threats fell on ears equally deaf to all pleading. At last the guards listening outside heard only the low sobbing of a woman's voice near the door for a half hour without a sound from the man.
And then his short, sharp words came quick and curt and stinging: