CHAPTER IX.
TITE TAKES HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE SOUTH SEA.
High above all this hypocrisy, this intrigue, this selfishness and dissimulation, there was something more pure and good.

It was love, pure and simple, binding the thoughts and hearts of Mattie Chapman and young Tite.

That love which forgets everything else in its truth and purity, had been gently binding their young affections together.

And now nothing could separate them.
What sweet joys and touching sorrows are mingled with the wonderful history of love.

How surely it marks its objects.