’A right good thought, sweetheart! And what say you to putting up a
stained glass window of St. Catherine herself? And beside the wheel we
will place a cord in her hand, which will be in memory of the cruel knot
of which you still bear the marks.’
’For shame, Harry! Nay, I was no saint. Why, if Captain Carew had not
come in the nick of time, I should, perhaps, have told everything I
knew. There, put up the gold pieces in their bag--I cannot abide the
sight of them; but Mr. Aylett will say, I am sure, that God can, and He
will, sanctify even stolen treasure.’
And so out of evil they brought forth good, as all can do who set their
minds to it. But that evening, when Mr. Aylett, with much surprise,
received the gold, he asked Harry, laughingly, if he were of the same
mind as of old, and if he would still like to wander forth.
’If Etta would come too, I would not mind seeing those beautiful lands
again,’ he said. ’But, what with mother and the children, I know right
well she will not travel again for many a long year.’
’Prithee, then, go alone, Harry, an it please you,’ said his wife; and
as Harry shook his head in a very determined fashion, Etta Fenn fell
a-laughing softly, knowing well that her husband would never leave her
for all the gold of the West Indies.
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