“I’m very glad to see you, John Huish,” said a familiar voice, though, the next moment, as Gertrude rose to embrace her father, and the little white, bent old man stood up to limp painfully two or three steps to grasp both his hands.
John Huish could not speak, knowing what he did; and, pale and flushed by turns, he stood grasping the old man’s hands and thinking of how his father had robbed him of his love, almost of his life.
“My dear John,” he said, “you have taken my darling, and, as I have looked upon her always as my child, why, you must be my son. God bless you! The past is dead.”
The End.
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