"How well, you know yourself--through thick and thin.

No matter what work and what risk, I was always there; always ready." How well he saw the greatness of his work and the immensity of that injustice which was his reward.

She was that man's daughter! In the light of this disclosure the facts of the last five years of his life stood clearly revealed in their full meaning.

He had spoken first to Joanna at the gate of their dwelling as he went to his work in the brilliant flush of the early morning, when women and flowers are charming even to the dullest eyes.

A most respectable family--two women and a young man--were his next-door neighbours.