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wounded love and disappointed hopes Then he had said to hi now," and now, alas, he felt how

little he knew of that pain which rends the heart and takes the breath

away

"God help her!" he ht, his first prayer, for

Daisy, the girl who called herself his wife, when just across the hall,

only a few rods aas the bride of a few hours--another woman who

bore his name and called him her husband

With a face as pale as ashes and hands which shook like palsied hands,

he read again that pathetic cry from her whom he now felt he had never

ceased to love; aye, whom he loved still, and wholadly and loved and cherished as the

priceless thing he had once thought her to be The firstof the letter were Daisy's wholly, and

in bitterness of soul the ain

cried out, as he stretched his ar--too late But had it coo, I would--would--have gone to you over land and sea, but

now--another is in your place, another is my wife; Julia--poor, innocent

Julia God help me to keep my vow; God help me in my need!"