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"You are now acquainted with the trust I would impose upon you: swear to me, Moro, that you will make this explanation for ! Swear it by the love you once said you bore me!" She sank back exhausted and awaited my response For amust be said As I noted her iht froive me that I have ever doubted you Even as you have been true to yourself, I swear by the love I still bear you to deliver yourI shall co h the failure of my memory"

She reached her hand out feebly to ratitude which accompanied its tremulous pressure as she murmured: "After John, Moro, you are dearest I shall not try to thank you May the ineffable peace which you bringheart return a thousand-fold into your own Farewell Ragobah may return at any ood-bye The dew-drop now ht child! She had tried to adopt her lover's religion without abandoning her own I bent over and kissed her It was ave it with a sweet sadness, the h all these years, has dwelt in the better part of , lingering look and I departed, never to see again this woman I had so fondly, so hopelessly loved

You no the exact nature of the covenant I have felt constrained to violate I have told you her story in her oords I wrote it out immediately afterthe last twenty years, that I have co, of her kiss and her grateful look has been throughout all these long, weary years the one verdant spot in the desert of my life

[Moro Scindia paused here, as one who had reached the end of his narrative, and I continued ain saw your cousin youof her fate