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Her voice ceased, and the silence closed in around the, and in the ere purple islands old

The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning

stilly in the quiet of the evening For soain seeot

to his feet, and looked toward his boat "I ," he said; then,

as Audrey raised her head and the light struck upon her face, he continued

man could speak: "I am

sorry for you, my maid God knows that I should kno dreadful are the

wounds of the spirit! Should you need a friend"-Audrey shook her head "No hed before "They belong in drea"

The storekeeper went his way, back to the Fair View store, rowing slowly,

with a grim and troubled face, while Darden's Audrey sat still upon the

green hillock and watched the darkening river Behind her, at no great

distance, was the glebe house; h the bushes and calling her by name The river darkened ed to plains of amethyst

and opal There was a crescentat it with eyes

that ached for the tears that would not gather, knew that once she would

have found it fair