So after a residence of six years on the island, I left it at last, carrying you with me and calling myself a widow.

It was then that I took the name of Costello.

It was my mother's family name, and is really, as you have always supposed, Spanish--my great-grandfather having been a Spaniard.

I gave you the name at your baptism, so that it is really yours, though not mine.
"For six months we remained in Montreal; but I had been so long used to the silence and free air of the island that my health failed in the noisy town.

I was seized with a terror of dying, and leaving you unprotected, and therefore determined to try whether I could not remain concealed equally well in the country.