"You are not my father; but you are very like him," she said.
"I am not your father, little maid. I came to thank these people for their kindness to me a few years ago."
"Are you he whom I found by the brook, wounded and dying?" asked Charles.
"I am."
"Your mysterious disappearance occasioned much comment."
Before the stranger could frame an answer, the door was again thrown open, and this time it was Cora's father, in reality, who entered the house. She sprang to him, saying:
"Father, I see now there is a difference between you and him!"
For the first time, George Waters saw the stranger. As their eyes met, each started, gazed at the other a moment, as if to be assured he was right, and then George Waters cried:
"Harry!"
"George!"