He was and is in the hands of the Lord." Then he told her what had happened that afternoon.
Carlia listened with staring eyes and bated breath.

And Dorian had actually risked his life in an attempt to save Jack Lamont! If Dorian only had known! But he would never know, never now.

She had heard of the fight between Dorian and Lamont, as that had been common gossip for a time; but Carlia had no way of connecting that event with herself or her secret, as no one had heard what words passed between them that day, and Dorian had said nothing.

And now he had tried to save the life of the man whom he had so thoroughly trounced.

"What a puzzle he was! And yet what a kind, open face was his, as he sat there in the reddening evening light telling her in his simple way what he had done.