No one is to blame for my misfortune but myself." Then I continued bitterly, "Unless it be the good God who created me a fool." John went to his father's side and said:-- "Sir Malcolm is here, father.

Will you not rise and greet him ?" John's voice aroused his father, and the old lord came to the little patch of light in which I was standing and said: "A terrible evil has fallen upon us, Sir Malcolm, and without our fault.

I grieve to learn that you also are entangled in the web.

The future looks very dark." "Cheer up, father," said John, taking the old man's hand.

"Light will soon come; I am sure it will." "I have tried all my life to be a just man," said Lord Rutland.