Tell this innocent girl the whole ugly story?
It could not be done.

There was but one thing to do--to go away, to put this world of French Canada behind him, and leave her free to follow her fancy, or some one else's fancy.
Or some one else's fancy?
There was Tarboe.

Tarboe had taken from him the place in the business which should be his; he had displaced him in his father's affections...

and now Junia! He held out a hand to the girl.

"I must go and see my mother." His eyes abashed her.