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He looked at ly

"That is well," he said briefly "And now, as I arief is one I nerved myself to the task I had before me, and within an hour the fair casket of what had been Zara lay on an open bier in the little chapel, lights burning round it, and flowers strewn above it in mournful profusion

We left her body arrayed in its white satin garb; the cluster of orange-blossoathered still bloomed upon the cold breast, where the crucifix lay; but in the tresses of the long dark hair I wove a wreath of lilies instead of the pearls we had undone

And now I knelt beside the bier absorbed in thought So servants had asseroups The tall candles on the altar were lit, and Father Paul, clad inpriestly vestments, prayed there in silence The stored without, and the s of the chapel shook and rattled with the violence of the te that echoed throughout the house I shuddered So short a time had elapsed since Zara had been alive and well; now, I could not bear to think that she was gone from me for ever For ever, did I say? No, not for ever--not so long as love exists--love that shall bring us together again in that far-off Sphere where--Hush! as that? The sound of the organ? I looked around me in startled wonderment There was no one seated at the instruhts on the altar and round the bier burnt steadily; the ure of the priest before the tabernacle; the praying servants of the household--all was unchanged But certainly a flood of randly on the ear-- noise of the battering wind I rose softly, and touched one of the kneeling doan?" I said

The woman looked up at me with tearful, alarmed eyes

"No, rew louder and louder, and surged round me in waves of melody Evidently no one in the chapel heard it but myself I looked about for Heliobas, but he had not entered He was rieve in secret e had borne Zara's body to its present couch of dreamless sleep