CHAPTER SEVENLord Victor walked down onto the sand and sat on a rock gazing out to sea.
The flames from the barge were still rising in the far distance.
He, however, was looking with unseeing eyes in front of him.
The moon and the stars were reflected in the water, but he was aware only of the darkness that was beginning to encompass him.
Gradually the rapture that the Princess had aroused faded away.
There remained only despair and fear for the future.
He must have been there for quite a long time when suddenly he heard a scream and he jumped to his feet and as he did so he heard the Princess scream again.
He ran across the sand as fast as he could.
As he neared the boathouse, he saw a man peering in through the broken window.
He turned round as Lord Victor approached and the moo
