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Naturally, even during his reading, a thousand answers and adverse co, of hallucination--but yet, here the possibility re men and women ith the usual coorically and in detail, that on this and that date, in this place and the other, after having taken all possible precautions against fraud, they had received es of which the purport was understood by none but theht, the actual features of the dead whom they loved, that they had even clasped their hands, and held for an instant the bodies of those whom they had seen die with their own eyes, and buried

When the ladies' footsteps had ceased to sound overhead, Laurie went to the French , opened it, and passed on to the lawn

He was astonished at the warht The little wind that had been chilly this afternoon had dropped with the coreat ainst the sky He passed round the house, and beneath the yews, and sat down on the garden bench

It was darker here than outside on the lawn Beneath his feet were the soft needles from the trees, and above hiht, he could see the glirant, kindly night Froarden came no sound; and the house, too, was still behind him An illuminatedsomewhere on the first floor went out as he looked at it, like a soul leaving a body; once a sleepy bird soain

Then as he still labored in arguainst the other, his emotion rose up in an irresistible torrent, and all consideration ceased One thing remained: he must have Amy, or he must die

It was five or six ain frothose minutes he had willed with his whole power that she should corant darkness, hidden from all eyes--in this sweet silence, round which sleep kept its guard

Such things had happened before; such things must have happened, for the will and the love of ain it had happened; there must be somewhere in the world man aftersilently in the dark, a child wailing for his mother; surely that force had before, in the world's history, willed back again from the mysterious dark of space the dear personality that was all that even heaven could give, had even compelled into a ses must have happened--only secrets had been well kept