Some great and good influence guided him to me--I am sure of it.

You don't know all his history.

Shall I tell it to you ?" "Yes--do tell me--but I think I know it.

Was he not a former old friend of your father's ?" "No--that's a story I had to invent to satisfy the curiosity of the villagers.

It would never have done to let them know that he was only an old tramp whom I found ill and nearly dying out on the hills during a great storm we had last summer.