22/32 I would have assumed some other name when I arrived here, except that I could not bring myself to give up my own and my father's--he never did anything to disgrace it. He was caught in a trap, that is all, and I signed away everything I could to help him out. He stood by me when I was in India, and when he had a shilling he gave me half. I would rather have died, much as my wife blamed me, than not to have done what I did. Dalton was at the bottom of it all. |