"So you have come?" the stranger said brutally, after a brief and painful pause.
"I have never broken my word," Tristan replied.
"Well spoken! I shall be plain and brief, if you will own the truth."
"I have nothing to conceal, my lord."
Roger's eyes gleamed with yet livelier malice.
"Where is the Lady Hellayne? Where is my wife?"
"As God lives, I know not. Yet—I would give my life, to know."
"Indeed! You may be given that chance. You are frank at least—"
"I may have wronged you in heart, my lord,—but never in deed—" Tristan replied.
"What I have seen, I have seen," the other snarled viciously. "Perchance this silent devotion accounts also for many other things."