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She noticed on the right, just before she turned up to the village on the left, the grocer's shop, with the naht and flaent could be faintly descried within, in white shirt-sleeves and an apron, busied at a pile of cheeses Overhead, three pairs of lace curtains, each decked with a blue bow, denoted the bedrooms One of them must have been Ae, soth, she pondered Ae; but she had a tolerably accurate mental picture of her from Mrs Baxter's account Ah! how could Laurie? How could he? Laurie, of all people! It was just oneher letter into the box at the corner, she hesitated for an instant Then, with an odd look on her face, she turned sharply aside to where the church tower pricked above the leafless trees

It was a typical little country church, with that odor of the respectable and rather stuffy sanctity peculiar to the class; she had wrinkled her nose at it more than once in Laurie's co a the headstones to where a very white el clasped an equally white marble cross She passed to the front of this, and looked, frowning a little over the intolerable taste of the thing

The cross, she perceived, reathed with a spray of white el was a Ger behind a kind of button; and there, at the foot of the cross, was the inscription, in startling black-AMY NUGENT THE DEAR AND ONLY DAUGHTER OF AMOS AND MARIA NUGENT OF STANTONS DIED SEPTEMBER 21st 1901 RESPECTED BY ALL "I SHALL SEE HER BUT NOT NOW"

Below, as vivid as the inscription, there stood out the maker's name, and of the tohere he lived

So she lay there, reflected Maggie It had ended in that Aa little, and sunken She lay there, her nervous fingers motionless and her stammer silent And could there be a more eloquent monuned herself with the cross, while her lips irlish soul Then she stepped up again on to the path to go hoate that she understood herself, that she perceived why she had come, and was conscious for the first time of her real attitude of soul as she had stood there, reading the inscription, and, in a flash, there followed the knowledge of the inevitableof it all