op's question.

"Will you promise?" said the Bishop again.

"No," said Jason.

"Dangerous trifling," said the spokesman. "When you seize a mad dog
you strangle it."

"Ay, ay," cried many voices at once, and great excitement prevailed.

The old Bishop drew back with a sigh of relief. He loved Michael
Sunlocks and had been eager to save him. He pitied Greeba, and for
her sake also had been anxious to protect her husband. But from the
moment he saw Jason and thought, "That man's heart is dead within
him," his love had struggled with his sense of duty. As the trial
went on he had remembered Jason and recalled his bitter history, and
seized with a strong sympathy he had strained every nerve to keep
back his punishment. He had done all he could do, he had nothing to
reproach himself with, and full of a deep and secret joy at the
certainty of the safety of Sunlocks, he now fell back that the law
might take its course.

The Court was counted out, and then the Bishop turned for the last
time to Jason, and delivered judgment. "The sentence of this Court,"
he said "is that you be removed from here to the Sulpher Mines, and
be kept there six months certain, and as long thereafter as you
refuse to take the Oath of Peace pledging yourself forever, as long
as you live or the world endures, to be at one with your enemy as
brothers before all men living."

Now Greeba alone knew the truth about Jason. When she had fled from
Mann without word or warning it had not been out of fear of him, but
of her brothers. Her meeting with Michael Sunlocks, her short stay
with the good old Bishop Petersen, her marriage and the festival that
followed, had passed her by like a dream. Then came the first short
parting with Sunlocks when he had said, "I must leave you for a
fortnight, for the men I sent in search of your father have blundered
and returned without him." She had cried a little at that, and he had
kissed her, and made a brave show of his courage, though she could
see the tears in his own big shining eyes. But it was all a dream, a
sweet and happy dream, and only by the coming of Jason had the dream
been broken.

Then followed her terror, her plea, her fear for her husband's life,
her defiance of Jason, and the charge she made against him.

And the first burst of her passion over, she had thought to herself,
"My husband is safe, but Jason will now tell all and I shall be a
lost and ruined woman," for nothing had she yet said to Mic