"He saved my poor Hector from much suffering; he nursed him, and buried him here when he died, and then--that!" pointing to the tombstone.

"He made me love the English," she said.

"Some day I shall find him, and I shall have money to pay him back all he spent--all." Now I guessed the meaning of the scene on board the 'Fulvia', when she had been so anxious to preserve her present relations with Mrs.Falchion.
This was the secret--a beautiful one.

She rose.

"They disgraced Hector in New Caledonia," she said, "because he refused to punish a convict at Ile Nou who did not deserve it.