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Adele consented to go back to her rooe of a little

low couch next to her bed

Doctor Mandelet paid no attention to Madas He

was accustomed to them at such times, and was too well convinced of her

loyalty to doubt it

He was glad to see Edna, and wanted her to go with hinolle would not consent that Edna

should leave her for an instant Between agonizing moments, she chatted

a little, and said it took her an to feel uneasy She was seized with a vague dread Her own

like experiences seemed far away, unreal, and only half remembered She

recalled faintly an ecstasy of pain, the heavy odor of chlorofor to find a little

new life to which she had given being, added to the great unnuan to wish she had not coht have invented a pretext for staying away; sheBut Edna did not go With an inward agony, with a

flaainst the ways of Nature, she witnessed the

scene of torture

She was still stunned and speechless with emotion when later she leaned

over her friend to kiss her and softly say good-by Adele, pressing her

cheek, whispered in an exhausted voice: "Think of the children, Edna Oh

think of the children! Remember them!"