"I mean exactly what you heard, and, if you do not enlighten them, the settlers would probably not object to you.
Your farm will be taken over at what you gave for it." Ferris stood up.

"I am going to make a last appeal.

Silverdale's the only place fit for a gentleman to live in in Canada, and I want to stay here.

You don't know what it would cost me to go away, and I'd do anything for reparation--send a big check to a Winnipeg hospital and starve myself to make up for it if that would content you.

Only, don't send me away." His tone grew almost abject as he proceeded, and while Miss Barrington's eyes softened, her niece's heart grew harder because of it, as she remembered that he had brought a strong man down.
"No," she said dryly.