A Debt of Honor Author:Horatio Alger Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER III. BRADLEY WENTWORTH. " Are you back, Gerald ?" " Yes, father, and I am going to surprise you. I have brought company with me." " Company ! Whom can you have met in t... more »his wilderness ?" "A man whom you used to know in early days." "Not Bradley Wentworth?" said Mr. Lane eagerly. "Yes, Bradley Wentworth." " Thank Heaven ! I wanted to see him before I died. Where is he ?" "Just outside. He is waiting to know if you will see him." " Yes, yes ; bring him in at once." Gerald went to the door, and beckoned to Went- worth, who rose immediately and passed into the cabin. " Bradley Wentworth," said the invalid, lookingup excitedly, " I am glad to see you. I thank you for obeying nay summons." Even Wentworth, callous to suffering and selfish as he was, was shocked by the fragile appearance of his old companion. "You look very weak," he said. "Yes, Bradley. I am very weak. I stand at the portal of the unseen land. My days are numbered. Any day may bring the end." "Iam shocked to see you in this condition," and there was momentary feeling in the tone of the world-hardened man. "Don't pity me ! I am not reluctant to die. Gerald, you may leave me alone with Mr. Wentworth for a while. I wish to have some conversation with him." "Very well, father.1' '' Have you acquainted him with the incidents of our early life ?" asked Bradley Wentworth, referring to Gerald with a frown. " Not until this morning. Then, not knowing but I might be cut off suddenly, and uncertain whether you would answer my call, I told him the story." " Better have left it untold !" said Wentworth with an uneasy look. "Nay, he was entitled to know, otherwise hemight not have understood why it was that I had buried him and myself here in this wilderness," "He would have supposed th...« less