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"Bring out your boat," he would say "It's tiht, and the river is running so fast I thought once

it would take Daisy, but it left her, and I a, freckled hulk left, cover h I'll be white then, not red Oh,

Daisy, Daisy, , you hurt me so cruelly!"

Those were terrible days for Daisy, but she never flinched from her

post, and stood resolutely between the sick man and that other one in

the corner until the latter seemed to waver a little; his shadoas

not so black, his presence so all-pervading, and there was hope for Tom

His reason came back at last, and the fever left him, but weak as a

child, with no power to move even his poor wasted hands which lay

outside the counterpane and see look in his gray eyes as they went from the hands to

Daisy, while his lips whispered faintly, "Cover"

She understood him, and with a rain of tears spread the sheet over them,

and then on her knees beside hiive me, Tom, for what I did when I was crazy You are not repulsive

to me You are the truest, best, and dearest friend I ever had, and

I--I--oh, Tom, I wish I had never been born"