being perhaps too public a spot for other
demonstration, Wing simply hugs himself.

That night, under the arching roof of the great railway station, the
comrades, so long united by the ties of such respect and affection as
are engendered only by years of danger and hardship borne in common,
and now so happily united by a closer tie, are pacing the platform
absorbed in parting words.

"Jim, think what a load I've had to carry all these five years and
forbidden by my good angel to breathe a word of it to you."

"I can't realize my own happiness, old man. I never dreamed that,
after she got out into the world and saw for herself, that she would
remember her girlish fancy or have another thought for me."

"I know you didn't. Yet Fan says that ever since the voyage in the
'Newbern' little Ruth has never had a thought for anybody else."

There is a moment's silence, then Wing speaks again:

"There has not been time for mother's letter to reach me. I had to
write, of course, and tell her of the fate that at last befell him. Do
you know I feel as though after all it was my hand that did it."

"How so?"

"Feeny says he knew him the instant that side of his face was turned
towards him,--the side my knife laid open years ago. That was a fatal
scar."

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