At last it came, slowly, deliberately, in a voice that at moments was half suffocated.
"Last night when my uncle displayed his rancour and his evil rage, it began to be borne in upon me that such vindictiveness can belong only to those who have wronged.

It is the frenzy into which men whip themselves to justify an evil passion.

I must have known then, if I had not already learnt it, that I had been too credulous of all the unspeakable things attributed to Peter Blood.

Yesterday I had his own explanation of that tale of Levasseur that you heard in St.Nicholas.And now this...

this but gives me confirmation of his truth and worth.