The urgent advice of his physicians alone led him to embark upon that voyage; I see now that it was a mistake.

He left before he had sufficiently recovered to be safely trusted alone.

By the bye," Brooks continued, after a moment's hesitation, "you have not told me your name, whom I have to thank for this kindness.

Your letters from Canada were not signed." There was a short silence.

From outside came the sound of the pawing of horses' feet and the jingling of harness.
"I was a fellow-traveller in that great unpeopled world," the visitor said, "and there was nothing but common humanity in anything I did.