voyaged to the far domain where
a mother had sobbed away her life, hungering for a sight of her child's
face. The men, grave with the secrets of the troubled past, wondered
over the strange meeting at Geneva which had undone all of Hugh Fraser's
secretly plotted wiles. "We must never cast a shadow upon Douglas
Fraser," they mused. "Let the dead past bury its dead, and all sin,
shame, and sorrow be forgotten. For this once, the innocent do not
suffer for the guilty."
There was only left behind them a broken old man, wandering
disconsolately around the halls of the Banker's Folly and vainly turning
the leaves of his unfinished "History of Thibet."
Janet Fairbarn, tenderly nursing the now childish old pedant, vainly
soothed him, and fanned his flickering lamp of life in the silent
wastes of the Banker's Folly. But the half-crazed scholar refused to be
comforted and called in his mental despair ever for "the Moonshee."
THE END
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