The professor stood up and stretched out his hand to me.
I grasped it.
"Mr. Garnet," he said, for all the world as if he had been the father
of the heroine of "Hilda's Hero," "we parted recently in anger. Let me
thank you for your gallant conduct, and hope that bygones will be
bygones."
[Illustration: "Mr. Garnet," he said, "we parted recently in anger. I
hope that bygones will be bygones."]