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"Oh, Helen! poor Helen! How can I tell her, when she loved his to prove how strong was the love the unfortunate Mark Ray had borne for his young wife

"He used to make pictures of her," he said, "with a pencil which he had, and once he whittled out her face with a lily in the hair It was a good likeness, too, and I saw Mark kiss it ht he was not seen He had her photograph, it seems, but a brutal keeper took it away, for no earthly purpose except to distress him I never saw Mark cast down till then, when for thole days he scarcely spoke, but would stand for hours with his face turned toward the North, and a quivering motion around his lips, as if his heart were broken"

Bell could hear no more, but motioned him to stop

"It's too terrible even to think about," she said "Oh, how can I tell Helen!"

"You will do it better than any one else," Bob said "You will be very tender with her; and, Bell, tell her, as some consolation, that he did not break with the treatment, as most of us wretches did; he kept up wonderfully--said he was perfectly well--and, indeed, he looked so To to him onderful fidelity, will corroborate what I have said He ith us, he saw hi froet his shriek of agony at the sight of that blood-stained face turned an instant toward us"

"Don't, don't!" Bell cried again; "I can't endure it!" and as Mrs Reynolds then ca heart, started for Mrs Banker's,on the steps Tom Tubbs himself, who had come on an errand similar to her own

"Sit here in the hall a moment," she said to him, as the servant admitted the to her mother-in-law, but she laid down her book and caitation in herif she had had bad news from Robert

"No, Robert is at home; I have just come from there, and he told me--oh! Helen, can you bear it?--Mark is dead--shot twice as he ju him to another prison, Robert saw it, and knew that he was dead"