So this was Captain Anthony 's doings ! He had sacrificed his daughter to some crime of his dubious past . Alan never dreamed of blaming Lynde for having kept her marriage a secret ; he put the blame where it belonged -- on the Captain 's shoulders . Captain Anthony had never warned him by so much as a hint that Lynde was not free to be won . It had all probably seemed a good joke to him . Alan thought the furtive amusement he had so often detected in the Captain 's eyes was explained now . He found Elder Trewin in his study when he got home . The good Elder 's face was stern and anxious ; he had called on a distasteful errand -- to tell the young minister of the scandal his intimacy with the Four Winds people was making in the congregation and remonstrate with him concerning it . Alan listened absently , with none of the resentment he would have felt at the interference a day previously . A man does not mind a pin-prick when a limb is being wrenched away . `` I can promise you that my objectionable calls at Four Winds will cease , '' he said sarcastically , when the Elder had finished . Elder Trewin got himself away , feeling snubbed but relieved . `` Took it purty quiet , '' he reflected . `` Do n't believe there was much in the yarns after all . Isabel King started them and probably she exaggerated a lot . I suppose he 's had some notion like as not of bringing the Captain over to the church . But that 's foolish , for he 'd never manage it , and meanwhile was giving occasion for gossip . It 's just as well to stop it . He 's a good pastor and he works hard -- too hard , mebbe . He looked real careworn and worried today . ''
The Rexton gossip soon ceased with the cessation of the young minister 's visits XXXXX Four Winds .
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