Somehow, I felt that you were down here, and I slipped down as soon as I could." "I knew you were true as steel," he fervently declared.

"Nothing whatever could ever have made me believe otherwise." "Did father write to you ?" "Yes.

He told me never to come here again, and that I must not try to see you.

I came to the house, and the servant said you were not in, and would not admit me even when I asked for Elsie and Inza.

I have had an awful time." "I have nearly died!" she confessed.