He separated all such relics from the general lot, placing them, and also two or three packets of papers upon a shelf-table in the veranda--it was that table where Lady Bridget had laid the cablegram from Lord Gaverick, which she had shown him the day before she had left Moongarr.

Now it seemed to him an altar of sacred memories.

He brought various other small things out of the parlour--things he had not the heart to destroy--all belonging to his youth--and placed them there.

As he looked at them, a sudden thought seemed to strike him, and a wave of emotion passed over his face, softening its hardness for an instant.
But the grimness came back.

He made a quick movement back to Lady Bridget's room; and when, after a minute or two, he came out again, he was carrying a curious object which he had taken out of the deep drawer beneath her hanging wardrobe.