The Kings Pardon! Or The Boy Who Saved His Father - A Story Of Land And Sea (1895) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IH. Bart's Resolve. TV/T RS. ARBER had not spoken without many painful pauses, when emotion choked her voice. As she finished, she realized that the task she had set herself had almost exhausted her, but she compelled herself to answer the few questions that Bart could not refrain from asking, explaining to him that an unexpected bequest from his grandfather (who repented at death his long years of harshness towards his son and his son's wife) had enabled her to keep up the home and provide for herself and him. " Doesn't father write to you ? " " No. Not even on the rare occasions when the regulations would permit him. Not one of my letters has he ever answered." " His old friend from whom, as he wrote you, he borrowed the five hundred pounds in London?what of him ? Did he not at the trial . . ." " Of the trial itself you shall read to-morrow such details as were published. It will always be a bitter thought to me that I could not stand by his side. Before I recovered fully from the illness caused by the shock of his arrest, he was already on his way across the seas," " Mother," said Bart firmly, " all that there is for me to know let me know now, to-night. Show me now the newspaper report of the trial." " You are right," said his mother slowly, as she rose to leave the room. " I will fetch it." Bart rose also, and walked to the window, from which he flung aside the heavy curtains and peered into the gloom outside. How wild and dark the wintry night had grown The wind was howling round the lonely house, beating in stormy gusts against its walls. The air was thick with snow-flakes, which were falling rapidly from the black sky to the white earth. The sound of the sullen sob of the angry surf below was borne upward from the beach. Young Arber ...