"Why did not some one of the others who seemed to know tell me ?" "There were excellent reasons," replied the wounded man.

"Gabrielle loved one of the Bostonnais, a young man whom she met in Paris.

He was brave, gallant and true, was your father, Richard Lennox.

I have nothing to say against him, but our family did not consider it wise for her to marry a foreigner, a member of another race.

They eloped and were married in a little hamlet on the wild coast of Brittany.