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When at last I opened loom and very stiff and sore; therefore I lay where I was nor sought to move Little by little, as I lay thus 'twixt sleep and wake, I are of a pallid glow all aboutheavy head, saw the olden sickle And staring up at this, of a sudden back rushed memory (and with it my hopeless misery) for now I remembered how, but a few short hours since,there, ave rief beyond all coht look down upon this accursed lake, athis, I knew that one from me, that somewhere within those black and awful depths her tender body was lying She was dead, her sweet voice for ever hushed, she that had been so vitally alive! And rerew suddenly all blind with tears and, castinguntil I could weep noup, I wondered to findup my hand found ash inhow I had fallen and the reason ofmy knife and hatchet, and presently found the thus, knife in one hand and hatchet in the other, I turned to look down upon these dark and evil waters

"Goodbye, my lady!" says I, "Fare thee well, sweet coain, I pray, and shalt knoweance on her destroyers and death at their hands an it ht be so

In a while I came to that torrent where the water flowed out froh to cross, the water being less in volume by reason of the dry weather All at once I stopped, for aht all manner of drift, as sticks and bushes, branches and the like, washed down by the current and which, all tangled and twisted together, choked this narrow defile, forazed at this,caught in this barrier, so s and senthand I took up that saht for her hair Thus stood I to view this throughtears and to kiss and kiss it many times over because it had known her better than I But all at once I thrust this precious relic into my bosom and stared about me with new and awful expectation, for the current which had brought this thing would bringthese rocks where the strea and shivering, stooped to peer at soasped my relief to find it was no ht I with a prayer on led by the cruel rocks, yet searching feverishly none the less Long I stayed there, until the h to aid me But of this time I rite no more, since even now it is a misery to recall