"I have no right to ask." "Yes, you have the right to ask," she replied, earnestly.

"You have earned it to-day, if never before.

I'll tell you all about it.

You see I did not know--I did not think it possible--that he was the evil person you described.

To me he seemed as high-minded as he was gallant and handsome." "He is high-minded in many respects," I said, "and might have been a decent man in all respects had he lived under other conditions.