He could not bring himself to face defeat in the eyes of men, or to see the knowledge of it in their bearing; therefore, he fled.

He told me that he would be a hunted animal all his life; that the news of his whipping would travel ahead of him; and that his enemies would search him out to take advantage of him.

This I could not grasp, but it seemed a big thing in his eyes--so big that he wept.

He said the only decent thing he could or would do was to leave the daughter he had never known to that happiness he had never experienced, and wished me to tell her that she was very much like her mother, who was the best woman in the world.".