What is money compared to this one great object of my life ?" "And then--the delay! Suppose that we are too late ?" "He will live some days yet.

I can telegraph up at once.

I want no hole-and-corner confession, which may afterwards be useless, but an open avowal before the most approved witnesses.

If he will make it, well and good; if not, my life-work will have failed.

But I had rather it failed than draw back one inch from the course which I have laid down for myself." I looked at the worn face of Sebastian.