CHAPTER I.
ANGELA'S CONFESSION A year after the events in the preceding book took place O'Connell and his young wife were living in a small; apartment in one of the poorer sections of New York City.
The first few months in America had been glorious ones for them.

Their characters and natures unfolded to each other as some wonderful paintings, each taking its own hues from the adoration of the other.
In company with a noted Irish organiser O'Connell had spoken in many of the big cities of the United States and was everywhere hailed as a hero and a martyr to English tyranny.
But he had one ever-present handicap--a drawback he had never felt during the years of struggle preceding his marriage.

His means were indeed small.

He tried to eke out a little income writing articles for the newspapers and magazines.

But the recompense was pitiful.