She nodded. “Very good.... The sky is growing red.”
CHAPTER XXIV
THE FARTHER ROAD
What were Gervaise’s and Lantern’s adventures they would hear when they reached The Moon. Their own, throughout this day, led them to no harm. They had been for long in the hand of Ill Fortune; it seemed now that she slept and her grasp relaxed. The first outward happening came quickly, ere the sun was an hour high. They were crossing a heath-like, shelterless expanse, when a sudden Hilloa! halted them. Two men were rapidly approaching over the heath.
“If we can, we will evade them,” said Aderhold. “If we cannot and they would keep us by force—?”
“They are not wrestlers nor giants,” answered Joan. “If they have no weapon, mayhap we can give them as good as they send—”
The two ran up, looked at them suspiciously. “What do you here? Who are you?”
“Nay, who are you?” said Aderhold. “We are lookers for a reward.”