have the whole fare from the Docks--and something over."

"Very well, sir" said Diamond. "I shall be most happy."

He was just clambering up again, when the gentleman put his head
out of the window and said--

"It's The Wilderness--Mr. Coleman's place; but I'll direct you
when we come into the neighbourhood."

It flashed upon Diamond who he was. But he got upon his box
to arrange his thoughts before making any reply.

The gentleman was Mr. Evans, to whom Miss Coleman was to have been
married, and Diamond had seen him several times with her in the garden.
I have said that he had not behaved very well to Miss Coleman.
He had put off their marriage more than once in a cowardly fashion,
merely because he was ashamed to marry upon a small income,
and live in a humble way. When a man thinks of what people will say
in such a case, he may love, but his love is but a poor affair.
Mr. Coleman took him into the firm as a junior partner, and it
was in a measure through his influence that he entered upon those
speculations which ruined him. So his love had not been a blessing.
The ship which North Wind had sunk was their last venture,
and Mr. Evans had gone out with it in the hope of turning its
cargo to the best advantage. He was one of the single boat-load
which managed to reach a desert island, and he had gone through
a great many hardships and sufferings since then. But he was not
past being taught, and his troubles had done him no end of good,
for they had made him doubt himself, and begin to think, so that