CHAPTER XI

ALARIC’S SICKNESS Alaric sat alone on the seashore, looking out over the unbroken expanse of water. He was the only person on the island not present at Eleuthera’s baptism. From the farthest corner of the domain they had come, men, women and children. There were no criminals in the little community to be debarred by their own actions from mixing with their fellow men; no lunatics; no sick. If some of the aged were too feeble to walk, they would be carried. As for the babies in arms, they were always taken to church…