CHAPTER XI.
SARAH AND STEVE'S TROUBLES.
"Earth would be heaven, if there were no mistakes in it; and if men could not spoil their whole life by one error."
"The animosities perish; the humanities are eternal."
"Our bosoms heave to heaven; our very heart throbs upward."
When Jonathan reached his home he drove to the back of the house, and calling the groom, he pointed out the condition of the vehicle, and told him to get it ready for Mistress Aske. The man looked at his master with an inquiring, almost a suspicious, face, and Burley answered the look by pointing to his own clothing, and then describing in a few words, the tragedy he had been an actor in.
"But I don't wonder at thy wrong thought o' me, Jimmy," he added, "for I hev seen mysen the last hour as others must often hev seen me. Thank God, though, I hev clean hands yet, though they are dabbled wi' Aske's blood."
He left the man then, but he could feel the
