In breaking this engagement I angered my father.

In marrying Alice I angered him still more.
"I now know that he has forgiven me; he forgave me on his death-bed; he revoked his former will and made me his sole heir--just as if nothing had happened to destroy his old affection--subject to one condition--viz., that the girl to whom I was first engaged should receive the whole income until I, or my heirs, should return to England in order to claim the inheritance.
"It is strange.

I die in a wooden shanty, in a little Western town, the editor of a miserable little country paper.

I have not money enough even to bury me, and yet, if I were at home, I might be called a rich man, as men go.

My little Iris will be an heiress.