Verily, she hath had her punishment,--and the poor children, how they have suffered." "I know all," John sobbed.
"What will you do ?" "Alas, I know not." "Why not declare yourself to the world and claim your wife ?" "What! Illegalize the marriage and make an adulteress of my wife?
No, never! I pray you, my friends, pledge me on your oaths as gentlemen never to reveal my identity, while she or I shall live." Drummond, who was impetuous and hated Hugh Price, cried: "And will you leave her to him ?" "Yes," was the low, meek answer.
"Will you not seek revenge ?" "'Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.'" Drummond was choking with fury and amazement.

After a moment he regained control over himself, and gasped: "Heavens! can God permit such injustice?
And you will surrender her to him ?" "They believe themselves lawfully married.

She hath committed no crime in the sight of heaven." "But wherefore not tear her from his arms and fly to some foreign land ?" "Nay, my friend, we have two children, a son and daughter, for whose peace we must have a care.

Dare I for their sakes declare who I am ?" Drummond was eager to put a bullet into the brain of Price; but John Stevens was a man of peace and not of blood.

His days were few on earth; his race was almost run, and the prime and vigor of his manhood had been wasted on a desert island.