Poor old Cardo! the jolliest fellow in the world.

What must he have felt when memory returned after a successful operation, and he realised that Valmai and his father were utterly ignorant of his whereabouts." "Oh, stop, stop," said Gwladys, "oh! what shall I do?
Mr.Ellis, I dread to hear the end, and yet I must; go on, please." "Well, it's very sad.

Poor old Cardo returned home at once, and finding Valmai gone from Abersethin made his way up here.

Did you see him ?" Gwladys could scarcely gasp "Yes!" "Then no doubt you know how she repulsed him, and taunted him with wilful desertion of her--desertion, indeed! that honest Cardo, whose very soul was bound up in her! Had I not heard it from his own lips, I could never have believed that Valmai would have used the words 'base and dishonourable' to Cardo Wynne.

He is broken-hearted, and really, if she perseveres in this unwarranted indignation, I think it will kill him; and that is why I wanted to see her, for I still believe there must be some mistake." "Mistake! yes, yes, a horrible mistake.