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It took Carley a full hour of slow body-bending labor to clied, it resisted ascension But

at last she surhts, with naked eyes,

and an unconscious prayer on her lips

What was it that had happened? Could there be here a different answer

froirl, not accountable for loss of ed to a class She had grown to

wo had escaped the evil of

her day, if not its taint She had lived only for herself Conscience

had awakened--but, alas! too late She had overthrown the sordid,

self-seeking habit of life; she had awakened to real woht the insidious spell of modernity and she had defeated it; she

had learned the thrill of taking root in new soil, the pain and joy

of labor, the bliss of solitude, the proathered all these s to her soul

too late for happiness

"Now it is answered," she declared aloud "That is what has happened?

And all that is past Is there anything left? If so what?"