"Thank you, Eli," he said. "I give you my solemn word I did not wrong Janet. We may have flirted a trifle, as a man will do with a pretty girl, but I never injured her by word or deed. Is she at home still?"
Eli looked at him curiously. He evidently had no idea Janet left her home the same night he went away from Hazelwell.
"My girl has been away from me for two years."
It was Ulick's turn to look surprised.
"You thought it better to send her away, no doubt?"
"I did not send her away."
"She left her home, ran away from you?"
"That's what happened."
"When did she go?"