Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . fmodestly disclaiming praise or came and showered amazing wealthon the head of Sarah Browning. Hechose to picture her as a patient, beau-tiful woman, bowing her head to povertyand the slurs of evil reputation for thesake of her child—and when he hadbestowed upon her the priceless gift offreedom he retired, unassuming, almostbashful, but with the consciousness ofhaving been the chance instrument ofher happiness. He rehearsed that sceneuntil he grew tired of it, and thenthanked Heaven that with this one mis-sion his conne
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . fmodestly disclaiming praise or came and showered amazing wealthon the head of Sarah Browning. Hechose to picture her as a patient, beau-tiful woman, bowing her head to povertyand the slurs of evil reputation for thesake of her child—and when he hadbestowed upon her the priceless gift offreedom he retired, unassuming, almostbashful, but with the consciousness ofhaving been the chance instrument ofher happiness. He rehearsed that sceneuntil he grew tired of it, and thenthanked Heaven that with this one mis-sion his connection with Fuller Herbertspast was finally closed. For all Herbertsother affairs were in strict order—pa-pers, will, instructions, the address of hislawyer in London and that of his brotherin Devonshire. The captain of the boathad charge of that. Not even Angusstestimony was required. When he haddelivered the fortune in uncut stones,secretly deducted by the testator fromthe Herbert inheritance, Anguss workwas finished. He was certainly eager to get the job. Drawn by Gerald Leake HE PRODUCED A SMALL LEATHER BAG AND TENDERED IT TO ANGUS. REPARATION 301 over. He had, as an offset to his ro-mantic conception of himself as the de-livering hero, an uneasy sense of doingsomething slightly illegal. He was awareof a new distrust of his fellow-travelers inthe train that was taking him to thevillage home of the ill-used Sarah Brown-ing. It is not every man of Anguss ap-pearance who can afford to carry uncutdiamonds to the value of perhaps aquarter of a million dollars in his hippocket. If, by some unhappy accident,that hoard were discovered, Angus real-ized that he might find it difficult toaccount for his possession of that littleleather bag. Besides that condensed wealth, thebag contained nothing but the officialreceipts for the money paid for thestones — a certificate of legal buying—and Sarah Brownings name and addresson a slip of paper. Herbert had cau-tiously omitted any leg
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