it was that they were once more on this spot.

The brothers met before the collected members of the returning party and
those on the shore, and regarded each other with a stern glance. It was
the only token of recognition which passed. between them; but Charles
hastened to Helen's side, and pressing her hand tenderly, looked the
words that he could not speak before others. Mrs. Huntington seemed
overjoyed, too, at joining one whom she felt was a true friend to
herself and daughter, and unhesitatingly evinced this feeling, while
Maud and Captain Robert Bramble walked by themselves filled with bitter
thoughts. Robert had at once presumed as to whither his brother had
escaped, well knowing that he must here have left unsettled business
accounts of great value and importance. He therefore was prepared for
the meeting which took place as we have seen. The Quadroon saw Helen and
Charles thus together, she saw the delight that this meeting caused to
both, she was witness to the eloquent language of the eyes that beamed
into each other, and then she hastened from the spot, crazed with
bitterness of feeling, and fall of direful purpose. Had she been
observed at that moment, it would have been seen that there was danger
in her. To her father's kind salute, she turned a deaf ear, and hastened
into the dwelling with headlong speed.

Charles and Helen had much to say to each other. Now that he had told
his love, now that the dark veil had been removed from the past that had
obscured his origin, he felt confidence, and spoke with manly cheer and
a light heart. The most indifferent observer would have noticed this,
and it waits not without its effect upon Helen, who looked brighter and
happier than ever before, and the two succeeded at once in infusing a
degree of cheerfulness all around them, reflected by Helen's mother and
even Don Leonardo, with his heavy eyebrows and shaggy beard. Captain