John stood up a little excited by this unexpected need to confess.

He leaned against the side of the mantel and said, "Well, you see, Uncle Jim, I got in at the back--" "I don't see at all.

I want to be made to see--I want the whole story." John had in mind that he had done a rather fine thing and ought to relate it as lightly as he had heard Woodburn tell of furious battles with Apaches.

But, as his uncle wanted the whole story, he must have some good reason, and the young fellow was honestly delighted.

Standing by the fire, watched by three people who loved him, and above all by the Captain, his ideal of what he felt he himself could never be, John Penhallow told of his entrance to Josiah's room and of his thought of the cabin as a hiding-place.