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Still alone -- The Stranger's Request -- The Farm established / at the Corral -- Twelve Years ago -- The Boatswain's Mate of / the _Britannia_ -- Left on Tabor Island -- Cyrus Harding's / Hand -- The mysterious Document.
These last words justified the colonists' presentiment. There had been some mournful past, perhaps expiated in the sight of men, but from which his conscience had not yet absolved him. At any rate the guilty man felt remorse, he repented, and his new friends would have cordially pressed the hand which they sought; but he did not feel himself worthy to extend it to honest men! However, after the scene with the jaguar, he did not return to the forest, and from that day did not go beyond the enclosure of Granite House.