She would have loved to atone for all Miss Minorkey's perfidy.

And just alongside of her pity for Charlton thus deserted, crept in a secret joy.

For there was now none to stand nearer friend to Albert than herself.
And yet Charlton did not want for friends.

Whisky Jim had a lively sense of gratitude to him for his advocacy of Jim's right to the claim as against Westcott; and having also a lively antagonism to Westcott, he could see no good reason why a man should serve a long term in State's-prison for taking from a thief a land-warrant with which the thief meant to pre-empt another man's claim.

And the Guardian Angel had transferred to the brother the devotion and care he once lavished on the sister.