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He felt her fingers and palulped "I can never, never thank you enough I met him down the road just now He actually cried I have never seen hiive way before"

Saunders stared helplessly He knew not what to say In the ht he saw tears like drops of dew rise in her eyes and trickle down her cheeks

"You ed to say "Don't break down, Dolly; you have been so brave all along"

She released the shawl beneath her chin and began to fu she was unable to find it, he took out his own, and while he still held her hand with his left he tenderly dried her tears Suddenly she clasped his hand with both of hers

"I suppose you know everything--" she faltered "How silly I have been to think--to iled up within her and broke on her lips

"I know this, Dolly" His face hardened to the appearance of stone in the white light froive his," she returned, in the saddest of intonations "I knohat you say is right and true, but-- it is like this; he seems to have--died! I think of him only as dead, and a woman with a heart cannot at a moment's notice put her dead out of mind I can't, somehow, bla to be happy, and I' to get right I saw his struggle I did not fully knohat it ht I could help him, but it is too late--too late; and oh, that is the terrible part! I feel somewhat like a , taken froht forever Oh, I pity him, pity him, pity him!"

"Nevertheless, you must try to put hied "You deserve happiness, and this thing must not kill your chances for it Tihed; "but inelse to take our grief away Really, I feel to-night like an invisible thing crushed out of its body and left intact to float forever in pitiless space"