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Davidson! Of all men I had counted him my friend And now here was he,

reputed to be about to ht to have knoas all the world to h I had no shadow of claih we had parted not once but a dozen tiht to have known, must have known! And o forward in a yachting

party And, if perchance that fall he could persuade to accompany him

Helena and her chaperon (I made no doubt that would be her Aunt

Lucinda; for Helena's mother died when she was a child, and she was

soh in rather comfortable circumstances) what

could not so clever a man as Davidson, I repeat, one with soas that, with no other

o ashore at

St Louis long enough to find a chaplain, and then go on ahead for a

honeymoon around the world--on my boat, with my No, she was not

minebut then

All my life I have tried to be fair, even with my own interests at

stake I tried now to be fair; and I failed! I could see but one side