While Mr. Ware stood thus on the doorstep, through a minute of formless musing, the priest and the girl came out, and, somewhat to his confusion, made him one of their party. He felt himself flushing under the idea that they would think he had waited for them -- was thrusting himself upon them. The notion prompted him to bow frigidly in response to Father Forbes' pleasant "I am glad to meet you, sir," and his outstretched hand.

"I dropped in by the -- the merest accident," Theron said. "I met them bringing the poor man home, and -- and quite without thinking, I obeyed the impulse to follow them in, and didn't realize --"

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