"And where was my place in the world if not here!"
"I didn't want you till you came," she said in a very sweet low tone.
"Ah, child! you do not know what you are talking of,—nor what a snare was spread for you."
"Do you think that, Endy?" she said in a scared way.
"What else?"
"But he always seemed—I always hoped, he was really interested in those things himself."
"No man carries truth in one hand and falsehood in the other," said Mr.
Linden sternly.
Faith was sitting upright, looking very thoughtful and very grieved. "But you do not think, Endecott,—you do not think—there was no truth in it?"
His face caught her grieved look,—he answered slowly, "Child, you must leave all that. I only know that he tried to get rid of every barrier in his way."
"And how in this, Endecott?—What?"