She tied her horse to the cart and now there was three horses attached to the cart. She drove back, she was heading to her home where she was certain her mother will not welcome her and the stranger.

Rhoda stop about a hundred kilometers from home and came down of the cart. She trekked down to the house leaving the old man behind. He was still partially unconscious and could not tell what was happening.

She entered the house and found everywhere empty. Catherina was not in any of the room, parlour or the gardens, as Rhoda searched. She sighed in big relief. Yes, it must have been a...