ve seen Jenny in London she would have turned
him back. Indeed, that first stage was to consult her, but he
fancied he saw the face of the Wil'sbro' Superintendent in a cab,
and the instinct of avoiding arrest carried him to Southampton,
where he got a steerage berth in a sailing vessel, and came out to
the Cape. He has lived hard enough, but his Scots blood has stood
him in good stead, and he has made something as an ivory-hunter, and
now has a partnership in an ostrich farm in the Amatongula country.
Still he held to it that it was better he should continue dead to
all here, since Mr. Bowater would never forgive him; and the
knowledge of his existence would only hinder Jenny's happiness. You
should have seen the struggle with which he said that! He left me
no choice, indeed; forbade a word to any one, until I suggested that
I had a wife, and that my said wife and Julius had put me on the
scent. He was immensely struck to find that my sweet Nan came from
Glen Fraser. He said the evenings he spent there had done more to
renew his home-sickness, and made him half mad after the sight or
sound of us, than anything else had done, and I got him to promise
to come and see us when we are settled in the bush. What should you
say to joining him in ostrich-hatching? or would it be ministering
too much to the vanities of the world? However, I'll do something
to get him cleared, if it comes to an appeal to old Moy himself,
when I come home. Meantime, remember, you are not at liberty to
speak a word of this to any one but Julius, and, I suppose, his
wife. I hope--' There, Rose, I beg your pardon."

"What does he hope?" asked Rosamond.

"He only hopes she is a cautious woman."

"As cautious as his Nan, eh? Ah, Anne! you're a canny Scot, and
maybe think holding your tongue as fine a thing as this Archie does;
but I can't bear it. I think it is shocking, just wearing out the
heart of the best and sweetest girl in the world."

"At any rate," said Julius, "we must be silent. We have no right to
speak, however we may feel."

"You don't expect it will stay a secret, or that he'll go and pluck
ostriches like geese, with Miles and Anne, and nobody know it?
'Twould be taking example by their ostriches, indeed!"

"I think so," said Julius, laughing; "but as it stands now, silence
is our duty by both Miles and Archie, and Anne herself. We must not
make her repent having told us."

"It's lucky I'm not likely to fall in wi