He--wished to speak with me, He said he knew he had no right to suppose I cared anything about what had happened with him and Mr.Stoller.He wanted to come back and tell me--that." Her father waited for her to go on, but apparently she was going to leave the word to him, now.

He hesitated to take it, but he asked at last with a mildness that seemed to surprise her, "Have you heard anything from him since ?" "No." "Where is he ?" "I don't know.

I told him I could not say what he wished; that I must tell you about it." The case was less simple than it would once have been for General Triscoe.

There was still his affection for his daughter, his wish for her happiness, but this had always been subordinate to his sense of his own interest and comfort, and a question had recently arisen which put his paternal love and duty in a new light.

He was no more explicit with himself than other men are, and the most which could ever be said of him without injustice was that in his dependence upon her he would rather have kept his daughter to himself if she could not have been very prosperously married.