His thoughts bore upon him deeply and with foreboding.
And he asked himself questions--questions which were not new, but which came to him to-night with a new and deeper significance.

He believed that Father Roland would have gasped in amazement and that he would have held up his hands in incredulity had he known the truth of this astonishing adventure of his.

An astonishing adventure--nothing less.

To find a girl.

A girl he had never seen, who might be in another part of the world, when he had got to the end of his journey--or married.