"Your villainy brought me here." Frank Mallett gave a start of astonishment that cost him so violent a twinge in his wound that he almost cried out with sudden pain.
"What wild idea have you got into your head, my poor fellow ?" he said soothingly.

"I am conscious of having done no wrong to you or yours.

I saw your father and mother on the afternoon before I came away.

They made no complaint of anything." "No, they were contented enough.

Do you know, Captain Mallett, that I loved Martha Bennett ?" "No.