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He stepped over the lohich divided it frorass of

the cliffs, and irassy mounds were numerous, few had headstones; but one, marked

by a little white cross, had evidently received rass was soft and fine as velvet Cardo approached it

with sorrowful reverence; he stooped to read the inscription

"In ust 30th"

The blank space puzzled hi down at the little mound, a sudden revelation seehly than all that he had

hitherto heard and done She had kept faithfully--ah, too

faithfully--her proe until he

should cohtless he had

been Was it possible that his first letter to her, as well as his

last, ht have miscarried? What had she not suffered? Alone,

friendless, disgraced in the eyes of the world Motherhood, death, the

bitterness of feeling herself deserted--all--all had been tasted by her

for whoistered

a solemn vow that the devotion and love of his whole life should

henceforth shield her and guard her from every sorrow as far as in hirave with a curious yearning in his

heart His own and Vals awoke

within hih the island,

and began his way down to the other side to the scattered fishing