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With a sigh that was allanced back, having noted the intense warmth of the room The nurse, as otten to ventilate the charily he crept across the carpeted floor and noiselessly raised the sashes as high as they would go, feeling the fresh air strealance at the sleeper he withdrew

Descending the stairs, he went out on the lawn again Even that scrap of Nature's realht have been the dehich was rising and cooling his feet, or the pale, blinking stars, the sedative rays of which see brain He remembered John Leach's sermon that day in the mountains at the cross-roads store The fellow had found so He had found the way of the life spiritual, and it had co, humiliation, and final self- immolation Mostyn recalled the resolutions he hadeloquence; he recalled the breaking of the resolutions He thought of Dolly Drake, and groaned in actual pain of body and soul He told himself that he had then deliberately trampled under foot his last spiritual opportunity "Dolly Drake, Dolly Drake!" the words, unuttered though they were by lips which he felt were too profane for such use, see music Saunders had said she was ht have been his but for his weakness Perhaps she still thought of him now and then If she could know of this unconquerable despair, she would pity hiled up within him and threatened to burst; he felt the sharp pain of suppression in his breast It was as if his soul was urging his too-callous body to weep Dolly was as unobtainable as the heaven of the tramp preacher's vision For Mostyn only protracted evil was now available, and that was sickening to his very thought

He wondered, seeing that it was now ten o'clock, if he could go to sleep In deep sleep he would be able to forget He decided to try He went up to his rooh the s, he undressed and threw himself down on his bed For an hour he akeful He was just beco drohen he heard voices in the nursery across the hall He recognized the sharp, scolding voice of the nurse, and the ti, Mostyn went to the open door of the nursery and looked in