And, she wrote still further, she could not blame herself for this, because she felt that her youth and inexperience excused her.

She should always remember the claim that Adelaide and himself had upon her, and she was always his sincerely affectionate friend, Marion Arleigh.
Allan Lyster was not altogether surprised at the receipt of this letter; he had anticipated some such blow.

He went with it at once to his friend and counsellor, his sister.
"It seems to me," he said, "that there is an end of the whole business--a dead failure." "Nothing of the kind," she replied.

"Now you see the value of my advice over documentary evidence; these letters of yours are a fortune in themselves." "I do not see it," he replied, gloomily.
"Men are not gifted with much foresight," said Adelaide Lyster.

"Let us consider.