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The shepherd stared more incredulously than ever. "You can't live here,"
he said.
"
We mean to try."
The shepherd stared from one to the other. "You'll go back to-morrow,"
he said. "It looks pleasant enough in the sunlight.... Are you sure
you've done nothing? We shepherds are not such great friends of the
police."
Denton looked at him steadfastly. "No," he said. "But we are too poor to
live in the city, and we can't bear the thought of wearing clothes of
blue canvas and doing drudgery. We are going to live a simple life here,
like the people of old."
The shepherd was a bearded man with a thoughtful face. He glanced at
Elizabeth's fragile beauty.
"
They had simple minds," he said.
So have we," said Denton.
"
The shepherd smiled.
"
If you go along here," he said, "along the crest beneath the
wind-wheels, you will see a heap of mounds and ruins on your right-hand
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