He had been ever bold and self-asserting; but now he was perhaps a little over-bold.

But through it all the Australian letter and the Australian woman were present to him day and night.
It was this resolution not to be quelled that had made him call upon the attorney at his office; and when he found himself back in the street he was very angry with the man.

'If it pleases him, let it be so,' he said to himself.

'I can do in the world without him.' And then he thought of that threat,--when the attorney had said that he would remove his sister.

'Remove her! By heavens!' He had a stick in his hand, and as he went he struck it angrily against a post.