The statement of this plain fact appeared to overwhelm Mr.Vanstone.
Declaring that his friend had laid him under an obligation which he should remember to his dying day, he at once left the cottage, at once returned home, and wrote me this letter." He handed the letter open to Miss Garth.

In tearless, speechless grief, she read these words: "MY DEAR PENDRIL--Since we last wrote to each other an extraordinary change has taken place in my life.

About a week after you went away, I received news from America which told me that I was free.

Need I say what use I made of that freedom?
Need I say that the mother of my children is now my Wife?
"If you are surprised at not having heard from me the moment you got back, attribute my silence, in great part--if not altogether--to my own total ignorance of the legal necessity for making another will.

Not half an hour since, I was enlightened for the first time (under circumstances which I will mention when me meet) by my old friend, Mr.Clare.