great hall.

Thus did I come home again. And having told my story to my uncle, Sir
Thurstan, and to Master Timotheus Herrick, we agreed that for the
present we would leave Jasper Stapleton's name out of it. But somehow,
most likely because Jasper and his evil-tongued mother disappeared, the
truth got out, and ere long everybody knew my story from beginning to
end.

Within a few weeks of my home-coming Rose and I were married in Beechcot
church, and again the bells rang out merrily. Never had bridegroom a
sweeter bride; never had husband a truer or nobler wife. I say it after
fifty years of blessed companionship, and in my heart I thank God for
the delights which he hath given me in her.

And now I have brought my history to a close. Yet there is one matter
which I must speak of before I say farewell to you.

It is about twenty years since one of my servants came to me one
summer evening and said that an old man stood at my door waiting to
see me. I followed him presently, and there saw a tall, white-haired,
white-bearded figure, dressed in a rough seaman's dress and leaning
upon a staff. He looked at me and smiled, and then I saw that it was
Pharaoh Nanjulian.

"You have not forgotten me, master?" he said.

"Forgotten thee! May God forget me if ever I forget thee, my old, true
friend!" I said, and I led him in and made him welcome as a king to my
house and to all that I had. And with me he lived, an honored guest and
friend, for ten years longer, when he died, being then a very old man of
near one hundred years. And him I still mourn with true sorrow and
affection, for his was a mighty heart, and it had been knit to mine by
those bonds of sorrow which are scarcely less strong than the bonds of
love.

THE END.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

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