io The Flame-F lower

Then Evan took up Flamma and fled into
the forest; and as he looked out from the
edge of it, the sun had risen, and the roof
of his house was in flames; for the people
destroyed it for fear of evil spirits that might
lurk in it.

When the people had let Evan depart,
they repented of it, making a hue and cry
after him to slay him, so that he had to
flee into the heart of the forest to save
Flamma and himself; but when he had
built the child a hut of mud and stones and
branches to stay in, and covered the floor
with dry fern, and got food for her, he ven-
tured once more into the borders of the
forest by himself, seeking for Honora. Many
times was he nearly slain by the javelins and
arrows of those who hunted him; but he
escaped, and so came upon Honora after
many days, and led her to the hut.

There, with a javelin which one had hurled
at him to kill him, he hunted the wild things
of the forest, and so got food for Honora
and Flamma day by day ; but Honora would
not speak, but sat with her chin in her hand