He looked at her piteously.
'Didn't he do that fine thing at all?' he said.
'No,' she cried. 'Some other man did it, thank God! He is alive, alive—Mortimer—he is not dead!
He drew his hands out of her eager ones a little pettishly.
'They should be more careful with these cables,' he said.
'Oh,' she cried happily, 'we will forgive them anything! He is alive—alive!'
'But he never did that fine thing,' he repeated sadly.
CHAPTER XXII
Conclusion
'Let one more attest
I have lived, seen God's hand through a lifetime, and
all was for best.'