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Mirabell nodded and looked wise, but said nothing

When the church bells rang Audrey was ready, and she walked to church with

Mistress Stagg ht before, she had walked between the

lilacs to the green door when the Westover coach had passed froht Now she sat in the church h She did not know that people were staring at her; nor had

she caught the venolance of Mistress Deborah, already in the pew,

and aware of more than had come to her friend's ears

Audrey was not listening, was scarcely thinking Her hands were crossed in

her lap, and now and then she raised one andheavy that clung and blinded What part of

her spirit that was not wholly darkened and folded within itself was back

in the mountains of her childhood, with those of her own blood whom she

had loved and lost What use to try to understand to-day,--to-day with its

falling skies, its bewildered pondering over the words that were said to

her last night? And the morrow,--she must leave that Perhaps when it

should dawn he would coh at

her dreadful dream But nohile it was to-day, she could not think of

hiony of pain and bewilder Oh, sheyesterdays she traveled, and played quietly, drea stream, or sat on the doorstep, her

head on Molly's lap, and watched the evening star behind the Endless

Mountains

It was very quiet in the church save for that one great voice speaking

Little by little the voice impressed itself upon her consciousness The

eyes of her ainst the

splendor of a sunset sky Last seen in childhood, viewed now through the

illusion of the years, the her than nature had

planned theht shot to the zenith; the black forests