THE cells were all crowded; so the two friends were chained in a large room

Where persons charged with trifling offenses were commonly kept. They had

Company, for there were some twenty manacled or fettered prisoners here, of

Both sexes and of varying ages — an obscene and noisy gang. The king chafed

Bitterly over the stupendous indignity thus put upon his royalty, but Hendon

Was moody and taciturn. He was pretty thoroughly bewildered. He had come

Home, a jubilant prodigal, expecting to find everybody wild with joy over his

Return; and instead had got the cold shoulder and a jail. The promise and the

Fulfilment differed so widely, that the effect was stunning; he could not decide

Whether it was most tragic or most grotesque. He felt much as a man might

Who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

But gradually his confused and tormenting thoughts settled down into some

Sort of order, and then his mind centered itself upon Edith. He turned her

Conduct over, and examined it in all lights, but he could not make anything

satisfactory out of it. Did she know him? — or didn't she know him? It was a

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Perplexing puzzle, and occupied him a long time; but he ended, finally, with

The conviction that she did know him, and had repudiated him for interested