Part 3 (1/2)

Waring looked at him curiously

”What a wonderful man!” he half murmured ”I was led to you by fate: you have forced me to lay s in the face together,” suggested the gentleood piece of property

It's in the hands of a clever Englisho out there and start anew? He'll give you a welcoo?”

Waring had with his old habit thrust his hands in his pockets He stood well on his feet Bulstrode remarked it He looked meditatively down between the soles of his shoes

”You in anew, Waring”

”I drink a great deal,” said the young ambled away all thecare of mine, and it will be a point of honor”

”I'm under a cloud----

”Not in my eyes,” said Bulstrode, stoutly

”--which I can never clear”

Bulstrode esture

”I should want the chap out there to know the truth”

”The truth,” caught his hearer, and the other as quickly interrupted:

”To know under what circumstances I left my people”

”No, that is unnecessary,” said Bulstrode, firht to your past I don't know his That's the beauty of the plains--the freshness of theuest hesitated

”I don't believe it's worth while You see, I've batted about now so iven in so long, with no care to do better, that I haven't any confidence in myself I don't want you to see o back on you”

Bulstrode had heard very understandingly part of the man's word, part of his excuse for his weakness

”That's it,” he said,about alone It's that--loneliness--that's responsible for so htly as his friend whose derelict dangerous vessel, so near to port and repair, was heading for the wide seas again, Bulstrode wondered: ”If such a thing could be that soo with you and stand as it were by you--sohed ”I haven't such a one”