What say you, Colin ?" "My dear father, I say there is only one way out of that strait.

The money must be given as Helen wished it.

Helen was a noble girl.

It was just like her." "Ah, Colin, if you could only tell what a burden this bit o' paper has been to me! I left the great weight at the foot o' the cross this morning." As he spoke the paper dropped from his fingers and fell upon the table.

Colin lifted it reverently and kissed it.