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But why did Pet avoid this Frederick Lynville? Did she really dislike
him? Or----. The thought of his own shyness toward the beautiful girl
came into his mind like a flash. To avoid might be--to love.
The poor boy dropped the letter, and covered his face with his hands,
and wept.
Love is not always selfish; and goodness is sometimes its own reward. In
that bitter hour of his first real misery, Bog did not regret his
kindness to the Minfords, or take credit to himself for having nobly
concealed from their knowledge those little weekly gifts of money which
he sent to them through the mail, when they were in poorer
circumstances. He was not for a moment base enough to think that Pet
would look with kinder eyes on him, if she but knew of his secret
benefactions--which, up to this time, neither she nor her father had
suspected, and which they would never learn from his lips.

BOOK SIXTH.
MYSTERIES OF THE NIGHT.

CHAPTER I.
THE UNKNOWN HAND.
Marcus Wilkeson made no effort to discover the writer of the anonymous
letter, because he knew that such an effort would be in vain.


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