But what is done cannot be undone, and I trust that all will come right.

If not, it is because the Good Lord wills it otherwise.'" Here my father looked up and said: "When men suffer from their own passion and folly, they always lay the blame on the back of Providence." Then he went on, spelling out the letter: "'I fear your boy Allan, who is a brave lad, as I have reason to know, and honest, must think that I have treated him harshly and without gratitude.

But I have only done what I must do.

True, Marie, who, like her mother, is very strong and stubborn in mind, swears that she will marry no one else; but soon Nature will make her forget all that, especially as such a fine husband waits for her hand.

So bid Allan forget all about her also, and when he is old enough choose some English girl.