Chapter 19 THE BEAD CURTAIN

Hugh John set about his task of seeing Elizabeth Fortinbras in his own way. He chose his own time-a pleasant blowy afternoon when in all the vale of Edam there was nothing much doing. A sleepy place, Edam, on such a day-the morning calm, the forenoon disturbed only by a rattling red farm cart or two come in to bring meal and take back guano, then t