He did more than that; he altered, at the very last, a will made many years before, and left me an equal sum to that I had before inherited from my mother, but with the condition that I should never return to England.
You understand now why, loving the dear old country as I still do, I have always told you I should never see it again--to do so would be to forfeit all our living, and more even than that, it would be to disobey my father's last command.

My cousin's note was as kind and brotherly as if he had never had the least reason to complain of me.

He told me that he had married some years before a good woman who, I have since thought, might have been his first choice if regard for my father's wishes had not influenced him.

At any rate, they were and, I hope, still are happy together, filling my father and mother's places in the old home.
"These letters made my way clearer.

It was settled that I should take advantage of Christian's absence (for he had again left the island) to remove with you to the most secure hiding-place we could find, and as a large town always offers the best means of concealment, we decided upon Montreal.