I am glad,"-- and she hesitated a little--"very glad that they found you innocent.

I was quite sure you would not do such a thing." "I am glad I came over today, Miss Ellison," Reuben said quietly.
"Very glad that I have met you; for I have just learned, from Jacob Priestley, that it is to you I am indebted that I am not, in the present moment, a prisoner in jail, under sentence of transportation." The girl flushed up hotly.
"Jacob Priestley is very wrong to have spoken about it.

I told him he was never to mention it." "I hope you will not blame him, Miss Ellison.

He told me he had never spoken a word to anyone else, but he thought you did not mean it to apply to me.

I am very glad he has spoken; for I shall carry away with me, across the sea, a deep gratitude, which will last as long as I live, for the kindness you have shown me; not only now, but always--kindness which has saved me from a terrible punishment, for an offence of which I was innocent.
"May God bless you, Miss Ellison, and render your life a happy one." "Goodbye, Reuben," the girl said, gently.