There was a wealth of affection in Arnold's kind, thoughtful face when we joined the others, and Abe Guptil and the big Fantee, Paul, smiled at us—it was good to see their smiles after the sufferings and sorrow that we all had passed through.
"If only Gideon North and Seth Upham were here now!" Abe cried.
"Poor Seth!" said Arnold. "What a price he has paid for one passionate blow."
"What do you know?" I demanded.
Arnold gravely turned, "I know little," he said. "But I have guessed much."
"What have you guessed?"
"They say in Topham that Neil Gleazen left town in the night and Eli Norton was found dead in the morning."
While he paused, we waited in silence.
"That, my friends, is why Gleazen for twenty years did not come back. But I once heard Gleazen say, when the mood was on him to torment Seth Upham, let people think what they would, that at least he—Gleazen—knew who killed Eli Norton."