Soon I found myself eating and drinking, and the blood once more was mashing through my veins.

I was my own man again, rescued by charity.

And of all the women in the world, fate had sent this one to play the Lady Bountiful.
"You are looking better, my young friend," Colonel Ray said presently.
"I feel-quite all right again, thank you," I answered.

"I wish I could thank you and Lady Angela." "You must not attempt anything of the sort," she declared.

"My father, by-the-bye, Mr.Ducaine, wished me to express his great regret that he should have interfered in any way with your arrangements for this evening.