Not a word of thanks to me, Admiral.

I tell you that it was very cheap benevolence, for it was all done with his own money, and how could I use it better?
"I thought that I should probably hear from him soon, and I did.

Last evening there was handed in a note of the usual whining, cringing tone.
He had come back from abroad at the risk of his life and liberty, just in order that he might say good-bye to the only sister he ever had, and to entreat my forgiveness for any pain which he had caused me.

He would never trouble me again, and he begged only that I would hand over to him the sum which I held in trust for him.

That, with what he had already, would be enough to start him as an honest man in the new world, when he would ever remember and pray for the dear sister who had been his savior.