“I know you didn’t.  Yet Fan says that ever since the voyage in the ‘Newbern’ little Ruth has never had a thought for anybody else.”

There is a moment’s silence, then Wing speaks again: 

“There has not been time for mother’s letter to reach me.  I had to write, of course, and tell her of the fate that at last befell him.  Do you know I feel as though after all it was my hand that did it.”

“How so?”

“Feeny says he knew him the instant that side of his face was turned towards him,—­the side my knife laid open years ago.  That was a fatal scar.”

THE END.

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