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man?"

"Yes, I'll come, Si for e, and, as she looked up

at ain

"You o leave me?" she inquired

"For a little while"

"Yes--I--I felt it," she said, with a pitiful little s," said I Now, as I spoke, my eyes

encountered the staple above the door, wherefore,upon a

chair, I seized and shook it And lo! the rusty iron snapped off

in lass, and I slipped it into o--don't leave me!" cried Charmian suddenly,

and I saw that her face was very pale, and that she tre to her side "Oh,over us--darker and , Peter; as if our happiness were at an end; I see or--dead I a to ain, and full of self-reproaches, calling

herself "weak," and "foolish," and "hysterical"--"though,

indeed, I was never hysterical before!"--and telling entle, dying old

out of

the cottage, sheonce reat sob