to draw a few wrong
conclusions from his vague remarks and the melancholy expression on his
face when he returned after crossing the inlet to look for tracks.

"Right then and there, that old fisherman and I formed a partnership. We
decided that we would locate our man, save him from capture, and have
him restored to the normal. This would be comparatively easy since the
authorities believed him to be dead. We would demand in return that he
should go to France, there to serve those sufferers on the battlefield
who might have need of him.

"Ichabod preferred to remain behind, when I went to the physician's
house. There I found that Doctor Garnet had in fact been received by the
young doctor, who had taken him in and cared for him--proud indeed to do
so, since he knew his patient's reputation and held him in veneration
for his skill. The younger doctor readily entered into a conspiracy with
me when he had heard my story. I had an interview with Doctor Garnet. He
accepted my proposition fully. He was glad of a chance to expiate his
follies. He swore to me that never again would he take a grain of the
drug. At his request, I brought Ichabod to his bedside, and he thanked
the old man warmly for all that he had done both for himself and for me,
his victim. I offered him funds for the trip abroad, but he told me that
he was well supplied with money. He told me also that he had come in a
small sailboat to carry me away from the shack, but had seen on
approaching that his services were no longer needed, so had returned
whence he came.... From that day until now, I have had no word of the
man. Yet, I felt that he had kept his promise."

"And he did--nobly!" Roy said. There was a new admiration in the glance
with which he regarded his wife, who had accomplished this miracle of
regeneration.

Ethel met that glance, and smiled responsively.

Once again she dimpled, as she spoke half-seriously, half-playfully.

"Roy, dear, aren't you just a bit proud of your wife and Uncle Ichabod?
Between us we so worked it out that my kidnapping was not in vain. It
has done three things: First and best, it hurried our marriage; second,
it made Captain Jones a bridegroom instead of a hermit; third, it
furnished a hero for the battlefields of France."

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