As for Sturdy, he married Sister Mary; or, to use his own English, he got spliced. When Captain Gillespie heard of it, he sighed.
"Heigh-ho!" he said. "Another good man gone wrong. When an officer gets married, what I say is this: he is of no further use in the service."
But as for Sturdy, he stuck to the service, and erelong became a post-captain.
Jack did not forget the friends of his boyhood. He found for Malony a comfortable shop of his own in the neighbouring village to Drumglen, and Mrs. Malony renewed her age.
As for Little Peter, well, he is as prosperous as any teacher of music in great Glasgow; but twice a year he spends a whole month at the mansion-house of bonnie Drumglen.
And so my story ends, and the curtain falls.
THE END.