He will feel that, in a certain
measure, he has betrayed Captain Francis's trust. At the same time
we neither of us had any idea that anything of this sort was to be
feared, or we would have kept watch."
"You cannot be blamed," Trent said. "I am satisfied that you knew
nothing about it. Now I am going to let you into a secret. Monty
is a rich man if he had his rights, and I want to help him to them.
I shall take him back to England with me, but I can't leave for a
week or so. If you can keep him till then and have some one to
watch him day and night, I'll give your husband a hundred pounds for
your work here, and build you a church. It's all right! Don't look
as though I were mad. I'm a very rich man, that's all, and I shan't
miss the money, but I want to feel that Monty is safe till I can
start back to England. Will you undertake this?"
"Yes," the woman answered promptly, "we will. We'll do our honest
best."
Trent laid a bank-note upon the table.
"Just to show I'm in earnest," he remarked, rising. "I shall be
up-country for about a month. Look after the old chap well and
you'll never regret it."
Trent went thoughtfully back to the town. He had committed himself
now to a definite course of action. He had made up his mind to take
Monty back with him to England and face the consequences.
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