Then the remnant of the crowd compared notes and bruises.
"Man alive, what a boy to fight," said one.
"Who was it?" said another.
"Och, Jason the Red, of coorse," said a third.
Jason was the only man badly injured. He had a deep cut over the right brow, and though the wound bled freely he made light of it. But Adam was much troubled at the sight.
"I much misdoubt me but we'll rue the day," he said.
Jason laughed at that, and they went back to Castletown together. Greeba saw them coming, and all but fainted at the white bandage that gleamed across Jason's forehead; but he bade her have no fear, for his wound was nothing. Nevertheless she must needs dress it afresh, though her deft fingers trembled woefully, and, seeing how near the knife had come to the eye, all her heart was in her m
