We had all her adventures and experiences to listen to, which have been recorded in their proper places.
Late in the afternoon Mrs. Morris, who had been sent for, put in an appearance, having been found and sent here.
A happier woman never drew the breath of life than she was when she was enabled to clasp both her loved ones to her heart.
Nellie Millbank and I drew a little apart, that the others might have the first few minutes of meeting to themselves.
In response to a question of mine as to how she had gathered up all the threads of the tangled skein, she replied:
"It was through McGinnis. He was the tool of Brown, the abductor of Helen, as well as the murderer of my lost one. I suspected him rightly, after many previous failures, threw myself in his way in the character of a thing which I care not to name, and when he was in liquor he told me all. He convicted himself out of his own mouth."
"Where is McGinnis?"
Shadow turned away. He pretended not to have heard my question, and I did not press it.
Together we five had supped, and a right merry party it was—although I thought that the merriment of Nellie Millbank was rather forced.
This I thought might be because of a natural embarrassment at being in men's clothing after having revealed her true sex.