CHAPTER L.
"What a madman I have been!" cried Harry.
"And what a crazy fool I have been for five long years!" exclaimed Clarence.
"I have been an idiot!" said Harry.
"And I have been a brute!" said Clarence, "to desert her as I did!"
"She is an angel!" cried Harry.
"What must she think of me?" groaned Clarence.
"Let us go back to the States!" said Harry, springing up impulsively.
"You can't go to-night. We will all be off in the morning," said Tom Seddon.
These exclamations were uttered by the two young men after a conversation, in which all that has been long known to the reader was fully explained.