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Thornton could hardly say that he was skeptical before, but any doubts

he reat fundaone forever, and he left Hanover a changed

man in more respects than one

Arthur did not die, and on the Sunday preceding the hen the

usual Christain before his

people, his face very pale and worn, and wearing upon it a look which

told of a new baptism, an added amount of faith which had helped to

lift hi cares of this present life And yet there

wasto hi of his heart when he glanced towards the square pehere Lucy knelt and knew that she was giving thanks for hies of his convalescence, he had al her which she would rather do--bury hi that he loved her to the last, or give him to

another, now that she kneould recover There was a frightened

look in Lucy's eyes as she replied: "I would ten thousand times rather

see you dead, and know that, even in death, you were my own, than to