5/10 We both forgot the incident, and it never has occurred to me till since the funeral to-day that it might have been this stranger's cry. The name of course was only fancy, or he might have had a wife or child with a name something like mine, poor man!' When she was gone the brothers were silent till Cornelius said, 'Now mark this, Joshua. Sooner or later she'll know.' 'How ?' 'From one of us. Do you think human hearts are iron-cased safes, that you suppose we can keep this secret for ever ?' 'Yes, I think they are, sometimes,' said Joshua. |