“I don’t know but that it is best you should go,” Without another word she turned from him, and a couple of hours later left the house.

“Were they never reconciled after that?”

“No. In fact, they never met.”

“Is the wife dead?”

“I do not know.”

“Did he have any knowledge bearing on the matter?”

“I think not, for it has been his aim for years past to find his wife and her little girl and try to make reparation for his cruelty toward them.”

“He afterward became convinced, then, that he had seriously misjudged his wife?”

“He did.”

“What is your opinion of the matter?”