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THE WEST SHORE.
tortirf Finally, Mason came out to me, looking
though h biiDficIf had been close to death's portals.
M
Help me to make a litter, Blake; he says we
mct -t hrr down the mountain while the 6tupor
ImU, for he thinks that brain fever" His voice
broko, and If turned away.
con
" Oh, Edith, darling, livel Forgiveness i8 Dot
enough; live and let me do what I can toward atone.
ment"
"Oh, heaven forbid!" was the solemn response
from dying lips. After a moment's pause, she slowly
turned her beautiful, heaven-blue eyes upon his ttJ
I f i and cut some fir lxraghs, and together we " Roy, my husband, can you not understand that dp th
. . t i.i. i:h.. ..h i :i k 11 fit i.j ? 11 11 i i UcBlfl
unuucwm a mwr, wuicn we pneu mil or DianKeis, is an inai renaers iorgiveness possible? Do
an.! thai bore her slight, motionless form slowly and think, if I lived, I could ever forgive? No no n !
Umhrly down the rough trail she had climbed so The little, dead hands of our baby would drawm
otUn, in her heartbroken devotion to the memory of forever from you, and life would be but a mill 8
olhr-rday. deaths." D
. " 0h Edith ! You kill mel he cried and
I our ,wtUa wb -twenty-e,ght long, trying I pray that I may never again hear such a cry of
-"l-ldragg,lth.,rBlowlengthintothepa8tbe. ture wrung from a human soul. "Darling live ay
to ro w, know, or culd gu?9, whether Edith Mason in time I will win you to forgive and forget Oh
uM lire or die. Another physician had been promise-" g M
iTought, m counsel, from Marionville, and all that She liftpd hor hA a i
.kill could do h,l Wen done for her; yet as laid it o h is H t I Mm
cmshI tho f, of her attendants each 2 i ll T ? ? Then 6yes Wandered
AtlMl, one morning, as I tSSn iTtX? but an Wentef.
J" W of h, XE to catch the W
t" no out, the door opened and black Martha ... T u , Yidently her mind was wandering,
t tlnimt cnuh the boon. caressing a third person, but never removing her
M M p! " .he ejaculate, in a voice that would ttliUW f U,W 8ky that Sleamed ttro
hw lifu.l mo to ojy f(.(,t i. j . , , ; wou,a hQ '"tie casement. 5
- I X J . : W last word he uttered, carries m9
..n l,,r. Th,, L ,0lUpni; J" the dim past He says he will pro.
,, o. u ,hc,0 Md M0 ,hat riar
".Wd,,, " " 0 f,'1 UH ve0 fom; WJ,afterffis knew, constitnW .
"J I m I " ?' ' "' W Thl ,1 "M81 Poem of her own.
'"M no, ZX t , ' f1 "I"" 1 8wtb" naJ blrmr of ice died away, and
UI . U r " n" r"MP' 'or, to ej, d I!' B'IeDC( of the little chambeavs
...r. . , , ' ' wu "r I'Won from I,., l-. ... uon a gaspme soh
oukiUr .. , Qeeiln mnn TU j. wo uiCBBtuuuo
J''iuittill, with her -In..,. theP casempnf Z ii i . d fixed upon
MW widening portals or
that settled, finally
j, tuu UAJtl v
An
.. -omwarii k,M. w uuu BurDrisfid
"load. Bcfor. w. . "tMid that his wife
wghtfall of the same day, he him-