Mr. Harman was now a peaceful and happy man, and so improved was his health--so had the state of his mind affected his body, that though he could never hope for cure of his malady, yet Sir George Anderson assured him that with care he might live for a very much longer time than he had thought possible a few months before. Thus death stood back, not altogether thrust aside, but biding its time. On the morning of Charlotte's wedding-day there arrived a letter from Jasper. "So you have told all?" he said to his brother. "Well, be it so. From the time I knew the other trustee was not dead and had reached England, I felt that discovery was at hand. No, thank you; I shall never come back to England. If you can bear poverty and public disgrace, I cannot. I have some savings of my own, and on these I can live during my remaining days. Good-bye--we shall never meet again on earth! I repent, do you say, of my share? Yes, the business turned out badly in the end. What a heap of money those Homes will come in for! Stolen goods don't prosper with a man! So it seems. Well, I shall stay out of England." Jasper was true to his word. Not one of those who knew him in this tale ever heard of him again. Yes, the Homes were now very rich; but both Mr. and Mrs. Home were faithful stewards of what was lent them from the Lord. Nor did the Hintons miss what was taken from them. It is surely enough to say of Charlotte and her husband that they were very happy. But as sin, however repented of, must yet reap its own reward, so in this instance the great house of Harman Brothers ceased to exist. To pay that unfulfilled trust the business had to be sold. It passed into the hands of strangers, and was continued under another name. No one now remembers even its existence. THE END. L. T. MEADE SERIES. UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME. By MRS. L. T. MEADE. Daddy's Girl. Dr. Ramsey's Patient. Gay Charmer, A. Girl in Ten Thousand, A. Girls of the True Blue. Merry Girls of England. Miss Nonentity. Palace Beautiful. Polly, a New-Fashioned Girl. Rebels of the School. Sweet Girl Graduate, A. Very Naughty Girl, A. Wild Kitty. World of Girls. Young Mutineers, The. _Price Post-Paid, 50c. each, or any three books for $1.25._ HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK. REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD OBTAIN A CATALOGUE OF OUR PUBLICATIONS _A postal to us will place it in your hands_ 1. You will possess a comprehensive and classified list of all the best standard books published, at prices less than offered by others. 2. You will find listed in our catalogue books on every topic: Poetry, Fiction, Romance, Travel, Adventure, Humor, Science, History, Religion, Biography, Drama, etc., besides Dictionaries and Manuals, Bibles, Recitation and Hand Books, Sets, Octavos, Presentation Books and Juvenile and Nursery Literature in immense variety.