My friends at the college are the noblest people on earth; they have never asked questions, but they must have wondered." "Yes; and I've wondered, too, since the first time you came here and told me you had brought your daughter's child home.

It's perfectly natural, Andrew, for folks to wonder.

Go on and tell me the rest." "The rest!" he cried.

"Oh, that's the hardest part of it! I have told you all I know! She wrote me after a time that she was married and was happy, but she didn't explain her conduct in any way.

She signed herself Garrison, but begged me not to try to find her.