Mary took her father to a little cottage she occupied with an aunt.
A celebrated physician, accustomed to lunatic cases was called.
He pronounced Mr. Manton's case, a curable one, and, in the course of a year proved it so, by restoring the old man fully to his reason.
Words may not express the joy of Mary, who had awaited this happy moment to become the wife of Harry Glenville.
The old man was present at the wedding, in which he took the interest natural to the father of the bride.
On the very night of the ceremony, the old man, who had not previously touched upon that 'dark affair' aboard the Maxwell, was able to reveal events, so as to go into a full explanation.
He stated that, after being knocked overboard by Brand, he threw out his arms, clutching the plank which had fallen with him, and which, thanks to his being a good swimmer and to a favorable current, enabled him to drift down upon the volcanic island.
The hardship and excitement undergone, however, that night, so worked upon his brain, that he was affected with a fever which lasted a couple of days.
After that all was a blank to Mr. Manton. He could not remember what took place from that time to the present.