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'There are three of us,' she said, 'as knows you--Miss Madge, Miss

Clara and myself--and, as far as you are concerned, we are dead and

buried I can't say as I was altogether of Miss Madge's way of

looking at it at first, and I thought it ought to have been

different, though I believe now as she's right, but,' and the old

woman suddenly fired up as if some bolt from heaven had kindled her,

'I pity you, sir--you, sir, I say--more nor I do her You little

knohat you've lost, the blessedest, sweetest, ah, and the

cleverest creature, too, as ever I set eyes on'

'But, Mrs Caffyn,' said Frank, with much emotion, 'it was not I who

left her, you knoas not, and, and even--' The word 'noas co, but it did not co like scorn, 'I know, yes, I

do know It was she, you needn't tell hty in

heaven, if I'd been you, I'd have laid round afore

her, I'd have tore my heart out for her, and I'd have said, "No other

woman in this world but you"--but there, what a fool I a Frank very ined,