Perhaps you have guessed that it is not duty alone which has brought me here to these wild places.

I, too, left behind me a tragedy." Dominey's quick impulse of sympathy was smothered by the stern, almost harsh repression of the other's manner.

The words seemed to have been torn from his throat.

There was no spark of tenderness or regret in his set face.
"Since the day of my banishment," he went on, "no word of this matter has passed my lips.

To-night it is not weakness which assails me, but a desire to yield to the strange arm of coincidence.