I distinctly say, yes.' Late one evening, a little time onward, he caught her sitting by the dim firelight in her room.

She did not know he had entered; and he found her weeping.

'What are you crying about, poor dearest ?' he said.
She started.

'Because of what you have told me!' The Captain grew very unhappy; but he was undeterred.
In due time the town learnt, to its intense surprise, that Captain Maumbry had retired from the -- -th Hussars and gone to Fountall Theological College to prepare for the ministry..