Her mother, alive to danger, was not going to risk a meeting, and my vow to Molly left me helpless.

But how I worked! "That last year things began to come my way.

Adela married a fine young fellow, wealthy and generous.

My mother went to live with them in their western home, Calgary, where they still are.

Then Thomas Callandar, my mother's brother, who had never bothered about any of us living, died, and left me a handsome property, adding, as you already know, the condition that I take the family name.