He had never doubted her sincerity nor her kindliness, but now, as he listened, there stole over him a yearning, strange in one so habitually reticent, to share with her the secret he had hidden all these months--except from Father Cruse.
"Yes, you shall know," he answered, with a sigh of relief.

"It is best that somebody should know, and best of all that it should be you.

But first tell me how you found out that I could use my father's title--I have never told anybody here." "An Englishman told me, who wanted his trunk taken to the steamer.

He saw you cross the street.

'That's Sir Felix O'Day,' he said, 'and he has had more trouble than any man I ever knew.'" "Did you check the trunk ?" "Yes." "That explains how my solicitor in London, whom I have just heard from, discovered my address.