been robbing the firm. It practically broke him, and he has retired
from all active share in the business now. They packed young Fenton off
to New Zealand to try farming instead of finance, but he's not doing any
good there. Mr. Fenton, it seems, was most anxious to find me and right
the injustice done me, but I had hidden myself so well under an assumed
name in Naples that it was impossible for them to trace me. They
advertised in the Agony column of _The Times_, but I avoided English
papers, so never saw the advertisements. My efforts to escape notice
were only too successful, and, although I didn't know it, I was actually
defeating my own ends by my caution. If, as I intended, I had started
for a new continent, I might so completely have broken all links with my
old life that I might have gone to my grave in ignorance that my
innocence was proved. It was only the marvelous chance of this
afternoon's meeting that cleared up the tangle. I can look the world in
the face again, now, and not fear the sight of an Englishman. Oh, the
joy of having got one's honor back untarnished! Next best to that is to
know it was not my friend who had wronged me. The belief in his
treachery was half the bitterness of those dreadful years. Capri has
been a fortunate island for us, Lorna. It's truly called the 'Mascot of
Naples,' and I shall love it to the end of my days. I can take my old
name again now and be proud of it. You're Lorna Houghten in future, not
Lorna Carson. What a triumph to write to our relations and tell them the
glorious news. I feel like a man let loose from slavery."

To Lorna also this happy consummation of all their troubles seemed a
relief almost too great for expression. That Irene, her own Renie,
should be the daughter of her father's favorite friend, and therefore a
hereditary as well as a chosen chum, was a special delight, for it
welded the links that bound them together. The future shone rosy, and
she felt that wherever her life might be cast the Beverleys would always
remain part and parcel of it. Perhaps the triumph she appreciated most
of all was the introduction of her father to the Cameron Clan. No more
hiding in out-of-the-way corners and avoiding the very sound of a
British voice; henceforth they might hold up their heads with the rest
and take again their true position. She was proud of her father: now
that the black cloak of despair had dropped away from him, his old
happier nature shone out and he se