"Holt, as two men who are not afraid to meet unusual situations, we may as well call a spade a spade in this matter, don't you think so ?" "Decidedly," said Alan.
"You know that Mary Standish is really Mary Standish Graham, John Graham's wife ?" "Yes." "And you probably know--now--why she jumped into the sea, and why she ran away from Graham." "I do." "That saves a lot of talk.

But there is another side to the story which you probably don't know, and I am here to tell it to you.

John Graham doesn't care for a dollar of the Standish fortune.

It's the girl he wants, and has always wanted.

She has grown up under his eyes.