I told her, but there wasn't time to put
it on." He handed over the unaddressed envelope.
David opened the letter, and read:
"I have seen the papers. I do not understand what has happened, but I
know that all is well. If it were not so, I would not go. That is the
truth. Grateful I am, oh, believe me! So grateful that I do not yet know
what is the return which I must make. But the return will be made. I hear
of what has come to you--how easily I might have destroyed all! My
thoughts blind me. You are great and good; you will know at least that I
go because it is the only thing to do. I fly from the storm with a broken
wing. Take now my promise to pay what I owe in the hour Fate wills--or in
the hour of your need. You can trust him who brings this to you; he is a
distant cousin of my own. Do not judge him by his odd and foolish words.
They hide a good character, and he has a strong nature. He wants work to
do. Can you give it? Farewell."
David put the letter in his pocket, a strange quietness about his heart.
He scarcely realised what Lacey was saying.
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