My faith!--I thought I had faith till it was brought to the test,
and then it failed! But my good friend, Loftus, was sent to help me--to
strengthen the feeble knees.'
And Dan answered, crying bitterly, and clasping the rector's hand in
both of his--
'Oh, my master, all that ever I knew of good, I learned from you, my
pastor, my benefactor.'
So, with a long, last look, Dan followed the old man to the study, and
they talked long there together, and then went out into the lonely
garden, and paced its walks side by side, up and down.
CHAPTER LXXXV.
IN WHICH CAPTAIN DEVEREUX HEARS THE NEWS; AND MR. DANGERFIELD MEETS AN
OLD FRIEND AFTER DINNER.
'On the night when this great sorrow visited the Elms, Captain Richard
Devereux, who had heard nothing of it, was strangely saddened and
disturbed in mind. They say that a distant death is sometimes felt like
the shadow and chill of a passing iceberg; and if this ominous feeling
crosses a mind already saddened and embittered, it overcasts it with a
feeling akin to despair.
Mrs. Irons knocked at his door, and with the eagerness of a messenger of
news, opened it without awaiting his answer.
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