Hitherto his welcome had always been so cordial that until this moment he had never doubted of it, but now circumstances were changed.

He was no longer in the position of second son to Sir Thomas Outram of Outram Hall.

He was a beggar, an outcast, a wanderer, the son of a fraudulent bankrupt and suicide.

The careless words of the woman in the carriage had let a flood of light into his mind, and by it he saw many things which he had never seen before.

Now he remembered a little motto that he had often heard, but the full force of which he did not appreciate until to-day.