'It will serve as a torch,' said he. 'Run, Kainie, to the bridge, give the alarm to the bankers there. Tell them to bring tools and all needful down the embankment.'
'But they must not take Pip.'
'Pip will have sheered off long before they reach the place. Run, Kainie. Come on, Zita, and show me where the bank has been cut through.'
They walked on together, and their shadows were cast before them by the still glowing mill, which now and then shot up into flame, and then became a smouldering mass.
They walked fast, but not very fast; that was hardly possible on the bank.
For a while Mark said nothing, but he put out his hand, and took that of Zita.
'There has been great misunderstanding,' he said meditatively.
'Yes,'she replied, 'indeed there has. I was jealous because I thought you liked Kainie best.'
'And I—I do not know what I thought; evil things were said, and I was a fool, a cursed fool, to believe them. So—you were jealous?'
'Yes, Mark.'