I have another daughter married in the neighbourhood, and can truly say that my lines have fallen to me in pleasant places." Then he took Crosbie in among the old men, into all of whose rooms he went.

It was an almshouse for aged men of the city, and before Crosbie had left him Mr Harding had explained all the circumstances of the hospital, and of the way in which he had left it.

"I didn't like going, you know; I thought it would break my heart.

But I could not stay when they said such things as that;--I couldn't stay.

And, what is more, I should have been wrong to stay.