Guilt awoke fear and restored my powers of motion.

I fled at full speed, not to find Mason, but to leave everything behind me.
When I reached the manse, it stood alone in the starry blue night.
Somehow I could not help thinking of the time when I came home after waking up in the barn.

That, too, was a time of misery, but, oh! how different from this! Then I had only been cruelly treated myself; now I had actually committed cruelty.

Then I sought my father's bosom as the one refuge; now I dreaded the very sight of my father, for I could not look him in the face.

He was my father, but I was not his son.