These gave way to dismal certainty.

She died, and left him broken-hearted and poor, impoverished by the doctors, and pauperized by the undertaker.

Then his crushed heart had but one desire--to fly from the home that had lost its sunshine, and the very country which had been calamitous to him.
He had one stanch friend, who had lately returned rich from New Zealand, and had offered to send him out as his agent, and to lend him money in the colony.

Hope had declined, and his friend had taken the huff, and had not written to him since.

But Hope knew he was settled in Hull, and too good-hearted at bottom to go from his word in his friend's present sad condition.