I am taking means to find them, John I, must entreat you to rest satisfied with that." "Rest satisfied,--when I am uncertain whether I shall ever see my wife again! That is a hard thing to do." "If you harass yourself, you will not live to see her again.

Trust in me, John; Marian's safety is as dear to me as it can be to you.

I am her sworn friend and brother, her self-appointed guardian and defender.

I have skilled agents at work; we shall find her, rely upon it." It was a strange position into which Gilbert found himself drifting; the consoler of this man who had so basely robbed him.

They could never be friends again, these two; he had told himself that, not once, but many times during the weary hours of his watching beside John Saltram's sick-bed.