A minor sin indeed, but one against which you must struggle.

But there, there, it is natural that you should not feel warmly about the man who will one day own Outram.

Ah! as I said, this is all very sad, but it must be a great consolation to you to remember that when everything is settled there will be enough, so I am told, to pay your unhappy father's debts.

And now, is there anything that I can do for you or your brother ?" Leonard reflected that whatever may have been his father's misdeeds, and they were many and black, it should scarcely have lain in the mouth of the Rev.James Beach, who owed nearly everything he had in the world to his kindness, to allude to them.

But he could not defend his father's memory, it was beyond defence, and just now he must fight for his own hand.
"Yes, Mr.Beach," he said earnestly, "you can help me very much.