Let us keep the courage of our hearts and the faith of our souls--and I hope I always shall! I believe in you, and, believing, I say good-bye.

I say farewell in the great hope that somehow, somewhere, we shall help each other on the way of life.

God be with you! I am your friend, SHEILA LLYN.
P.S .-- I beg you to remember that America is a good place for a young man to live in and succeed.
Dyck read the letter with a wonderful slowness.

He realized that by happy accident--it could be nothing else--Mrs.Llyn had been able to keep from her daughter the fact that the man who had been killed in the tavern by the river was her father.

It was clear that the girl was kept much to herself, read no newspapers, and saw few people, and that those whom she saw had been careful to hold their peace about her close relationship to Erris Boyne.