Chapter 30: A Terrible Deed

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌​‌⁠John Franklin's manly blood had boiled with resentment at seeing poor Dainty driven away in disgrace from the home of which she was virtually the mistress, for he believed every word of the story she had told Mrs. Ellsworth.

It made his kind heart ache to realize so fully the sad mental plight of his young master, who could sit by in apathy, and suffer such a cruel wrong to be done to his unfortuna