I wish you could be guided to a different conclusion but, after all, it is your own conscience that must be satisfied.

They will be better here than at the Murchisons'," he added with a last shaft of reproach, "and they will be very welcome." It said much for Dr Drummond that Finlay was able to fall in with the arrangement.

He went back to his boarding-house, and added a postscript embodying it to his letter to Bross.

Then he walked out upon the midnight two feverish miles to the town, and posted the letter.

The way back was longer and colder..