He wrote from Assumption, an island in the South Seas.

If he was by my side he could hardly save me, unless he could prove that Uncle Luke was innocent of the things Garret Dawson attributed to him and could prove it to the world.

And how could he do that?
I had never asked what the secret was, feeling that it must be something very terrible indeed when my grandfather would not tell it to Miss Champion.

I never meant to ask.

Let the proof of it be given up and forgotten.