text:  Their income at all times small had been annihilated by the father's death; they left the white-walled villa and after bidding him farewell for ever in a letter and thanking him for his friendship to her father and some few tender recollections on her own account Alice had begged him to forget her! And Frank thought of her of course every hour of his life--tried every means to find out where they had gone that he might resume his suit and to offer them the fortune of which he had now come into full possession--but all in vain