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“The map, however, enabled me to guide them there, and to Miss Carr’s horror, she discovered the perfidy of the man she had believed to be a gentleman. He denied the charges against him, but I made myself known to him, and he said no more, and was taken to the fort, tried, and sentenced to die upon the gallows.”

“My poor, unfortunate, erring brother,” said Bonnie Belle sadly.

“Yes, it is a sad case, yet you have done far more than your duty to save him.”

“I feel that I have sacrificed, I was going to say, my self-respect to do so.”

“No, no, not that, for you are true as steel to yourself, even though you are what you are in this wild land. Your brother, with whom I had an interview, pledged his word not to make his relationship to you known, and begged that you would forgive and forget him.”

“I will forgive, but I can never forget.”

“He bade me also to tell you that you must let me be as a brother to you; that you must go with me to my home in the East, where you will find a sister in my wife, and be loved by her father and my child.