I have suffered horribly, but since I made up my mind to tell you, things have seemed easier, and I have been able to sleep," he answered with a heavy sigh.
"Will you tell me just what you want me to do, if--if---- ?" she began, but broke off abruptly, for she could not put in words the dread which had come into her heart that her father might be dead before the summer, when Mr.Selincourt was expected in Keewatin.
"If I am alive and well when the summer comes there will be no need for you to do anything; I shall be able to face the consequences of my own wrong-doing.

But if not, I leave it to you to do the very best you can.

You can't make up for all the man may have had to suffer, but at least you can tell him that I was sorry." Katherine shuddered.

It was bad enough to be compelled to hear that her father had been guilty of such meanness as to keep silent, in order that he might profit by the downfall of an innocent man; but when, in addition to this, she was expected to tell that man of how her father had acted, and, as it were, ask pardon for it, the ordeal appeared beyond her strength to face.

Not a word of this did she say, however, for it was quite plain to her that the invalid had already over-excited himself, and she rather dreaded what Mrs.Burton would say presently.
"You must go to sleep, Father, and we will talk about this again another day," she said firmly.
"No, we will not speak of it again, for it is not a pleasant subject for discussion," he replied.