I loved her far too well to injure her or her child.

It meant letting Robert Turold go free if I remained dead, but there are other things in life besides money and revenge.

Fortunately the position from the practical point of view was simplified by the death of my only relative, my uncle, during my absence from England, who had bequeathed his small property to me--not much, but sufficient for my own simple needs.
"I took my uncle's name, the better to conceal my identity, and resumed the medical studies which had been interrupted by my departure from England four years before.

When I received my degree I searched for a remote spot where I was not likely to encounter any one who had known me in my past life, and chose this lonely part of the Cornish coast.

And here I have remained for thirty years.
"They have not been unhappy years.