I was on the sea when the news of his wife's death reached him, on the fourth of March: and I did not return until the middle of last June." "You warned him of your departure," interposed Miss Garth.

"Did you not warn him of your return ?" "Not personally.

My head-clerk sent him one of the circulars which were dispatched from my office, in various directions, to announce my return.
It was the first substitute I thought of for the personal letter which the pressure of innumerable occupations, all crowding on me together after my long absence, did not allow me leisure to write.

Barely a month later, the first information of his marriage reached me in a letter from himself, written on the day of the fatal accident.

The circumstances which induced him to write arose out of an event in which you must have taken some interest--I mean the attachment between Mr.Clare's son and Mr.Vanstone's youngest daughter." "I cannot say that I was favorably disposed toward that attachment at the time," replied Miss Garth.