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persecutors cannot reach us without risking their 

 miserable lives ? " 



" No," she answered, " none as good as this, 

 and I have been far over the moors toward the 

 setting sun. There are the crags looking down 

 on the flat country and the sea, but they are not 

 so well wooded, and they are too near that 

 seaside town where we have enemies. I have 

 looked at many other places too, but there were 

 none to please me much. " 



" I thought so," said the Baron. " I have 

 known all this country, every tree and every crag, 

 since I first learnt to fly on the hill down below ; 

 and there is no such place as this. I and my 

 old Baroness brought up many broods here, 

 and now that I have a young wife again, 

 she wanders about and wants to find a new 

 home." 



"But men found you out and shot her here," 

 said the Baroness. The Baron sailed away from 

 her in a wide sweep, but soon returned and 

 spoke gravely again. 



" Don't talk of that, dear," he said. " I have 

 found another wife, and that was more than I 



