SECOND PART

, minds of men were stirred with great
fear and perplexity, for those that
journeyed from the North told
dreadful tales of how the wild
men beyond the borders were
thronging over the great wall of
defence which the conquerors
had built long ago to keep them
AG,| out; and now the friendly con-
oy tf) querors, who had ruled and pro-
"tected the land for four hundred
years, had all gone.

In the hamlet of Pratulum, where were
the ruins of the great house that had once
been the home of Licinius, and after him
of Evan, the men stood in unquiet groups,
speaking uneasily of the terror which came

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