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"I will!" she said--"When th and brilliancy, and finally died away in a fine hazewith the air She watched it till it vanished,--then with a sense of relief from her forirl had risen froswood, who tended her with ohich, carelessly gathered round her, intensified by contrast the striking beauty of her dark eyes and hair, and ivory pale skin As Morgana entered the roo like tiny pearls in the faint rose of her pretty mouth, and stretched out her hand

"What has he said to you?" she asked--"Tell lad to see you?--to know he is with you?--safe with you in your hoana sat down beside her

"Dear Manella"--she answered, gently and with tenderest pity--"He does not know ! He speaks a feords,--but he has no consciousness of what he is saying"

Manella looked at her wonderingly-"Ah, that is because he is not hi of the flood--this was enough to kill him--but he will recover in a little while and he will know you!--yes, he will know you, and he will thank God for life to see you!"

Her unselfish joy in the idea that the nise the woana kissed the hand she held

"Dear, I a more in this world"--she said, sorrowfully--"Neither man nor wo, living death! Unless YOU can help him!"

"I?" and Manella's eyes dilated with brilliant eagerness; "I will give my life for his! What can I do?"

And then, with patient slowness and gentleness, little by little, Morgana told her all Lady Kingswood, sitting in an arm-chair near the orked at her eain on the delicate pattern, as she heard the details of the tragic verdict given by one of Europe's greatestthe daht by the shock which had shaken a powerful brain into ruins But it onderful to watch Manella's face as she listened Sorrow, pity, tenderness, love, all in turn flashed their heavenly radiance in her eyes and intensified her beauty, and when she had heard all, she sht smile on a repentant soul Her whole frame seemed to vibrate with a passion of unselfish emotion