CHAPTER VII

BETHELDA “Well!” I exclaimed; “why have you not flown?” “And where?” she demanded. “Back to your Kalkar friends,” I replied. “It is because you are not a Kalkar that I did not fly,” she said. “How do you know that I am no Kalkar,” I demanded, “and why, if I am not, should you not fly from me, who must be an enemy of your people?” “You called him ‘Kalkar’ as you charged him,” she explained, “and one Kalkar does not call another Kalkar that. Neither am I a Kalkar.” I thought then of what the Or-tis had told me of the…