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A great burying-ground stretched for what see one side of the road The polishedsun The sky had suddenly gone lead-color, and there was a chill in the air Leslie longed for nothing so much as to hide her head in Julia Cloud's lap and weep Yet she o on and on and on till this awful road came to an end Would it ever coreat tower of bricks looh an arched gateway, and over the arch soot only one of them, "CREMATORY" She shuddered, and put on speed It seemed that she had come to the place of death and desolation It was lonely everywhere, and not a soul in sight What horror if her gasoline should give out in a place like this, and they have to spend the night here, she and that poor, weak creature sobbing behind! What contempt she felt for her former friend! What contempt she felt for herself! Oh, she ell punished for her wilfulness! To think she should have presumed to hope she could help her to better ways, she, a little innocent, who never dreamed of such depths of duplicity as had been shown her that afternoon! Oh, to think of that loathso to touch her! To try to take her car away fro way!

On and on went the car, and the road wound away into the dusk up a high hill and down again, up another, past an old far howling like one in some old classic tale she had read; on and on, till at last a cross-road caht or to left There was a sign-board; but it was too dark to read, and she dared not get out and leave Myrtle There was no telling but she ht try to run off with the car It was at the crean to pray, and, when she reached the crossing, her heart put up a second plea for guidance "O God, if You will just help me home, I will try, try, TRY to be what You want me to be! Please, please, please!" It was the old vow of a heart bowed down and brought to the limit It was the first time Leslie had ever realized that there could be a situation in which Leslie Cloud would not find some way out It was the first ti a sinner in the sense of having a will against God and having exercised it for her own pleasure rather than for His glory