CHAPTER VII

THE PROMISE The girl said a number of things in the course of this day that were to remain with Craig always, just as would the presence of her as she said them--soft-voiced, clear-eyed, brave. She was only eighteen or so, but she had talked so much with her father that she talked like a man plus a woman’s instinct to soothe and heal: “You’ve had a dream that turned out bad--but that is no reason why you shouldn’t dream again. Half the tragedies of this world were caused by dreamers, but so also all of the world’s …