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"Child," dehten me so?" He took her hands

from her face, and drew her frolow Her hands lay passive in his; her eyes held the despair of a

runner spent and fallen, with the goal just in sight "Would have had ain to the mountains for you, little ht of his ended quest

"Call me not by that name," Audrey said "One that is dead used it"

"I will call you love," he answered,--"my love, my dear love, my true

love!"

"Nor that either," she said, and caught her breath "I know not why you

should speak to me so"

"What must I call you then?" he asked, with the ser and a dreao

mine"

There was silence in the room, broken by Haward "For us two one path," he

said; "why, Audrey, Audrey, Audrey!" Suddenly he caught her in his arms

"My love!" he whispered--"my love Audrey! my wife Audrey!" His kisses

rained upon her face She lay quiet until the storm had passed; then freed

herself, looked at him, and shook her head