to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us yes that we may forgive it pardon me great heaven said lifting up the haunted eye for thrown away thine own high and if said if your memory one day be restored as we wiu hope and pray it may be would it not be a blessing to you to at once a wrong and its forgiveness he looked at the figure by the door and his attentive eyes on her again a ray of clearer light appeared to him to shine into his mind om her bright face he cannot go to his abandoned home he does not seek to go there he knows that he could only carry shame and trouble to those he has so cruelly neglected and that the best he can make them now is to avoid them a very little money carefully bestowed would remove him to some place where he might live and do no wrong and make as is left within his power for the wrong he has done to the unfortunate lady who is his wife and to his son this would be the best and kindest boon that their best friend could give them � one too that they need never know of and to him shattered in reputation mind and body it might be salvation he took her head between his ai d it the han s and said it shall be done i trust to you to do it for me now and secretly and to tell him that i would forgive him if i were so happy as to know for what as she rose and turned her beaming face towards the fallen man that her had been successful he a step and without raising his eyes addressed himself to you are so generous he said � you ever were � that you will try to banish your rising sense of in the spectacle that is before you i do not try to banish it from myself k you can believe me the entreated by a gesture to come nearer to him and as he listened looked in her face as if to find in it the clue to what he heard i am too decayed a wretch to make professions i recollect my own career too well to array any such before you but from the day on which i made my first step downward in dealing by you i have gone down with a certain steady doomed that i say keeping her close at his side turned his face towards the speaker and there was sorrow in it something like mournful recognition too thb i might haye been man my life might have been another life if i had avoided that fatal step i don t know that it have been i claim nothing for the possibility sister is at rest and better than she haye been with me if i had even what you thought me even what i once supposed myself to be made a hasty motion with his hand as if he would have put that subject on one side i speak the other went on like a man taken from the grave i should have made my own grave last night had it not been for this blessed hand oh dear he me too sobbed under her breath that s another i could not have put myself in your way last night even for bread but to day my recollection of what has been between us is so strongly stirred and is presented to me i don t know how so vividly that i have dared to come at her suggestion and to take your and to thank you for it and to beg you in your dying hour to be as merciful to me in your thoughts as you are in your deeds he turned towards the door and stopped a moment on his way forth thb haunted i hope my son may interest you for mother s sake i hope he may deserve to do so unless my life should be preserved a long time and i should know that i have not your aid i shall never look upon him more going out he raised his eyes to for the first time whose gaze was fixed upon him held out his hand he returned and touched it � little more � with both his own and bending down his head went slowly out in the few moments that elapsed while silently took him to the gate the dropped into his and covered his face with his hands seeing him thus when she came back accompanied by her husband and his fa r who were both greatly concerned for him she avoided disturbing him or permitting him to be disturbed and down near the chair to put some warm clothing on the boy that s exactly where it is that s what i always say exclaimed her admiring husband there s a feeling in mrs william s breast that must and will have went aye aye said the old man you re right my son william s right the of and th haunted man man it happens all for the best dear no said mr william tenderly that we have no children of our own and yet i yon had one to love and cherish our little dead child that you built such hopes upon and that never breathed the breath of hfe � it has made you quiet like i am happy in the of if william dear she answered i think of it every day i was afraid you thought of it a good deal don t say a aid it is a comfort to me it speaks to me in so many ways the innocent thing that never lived on earth is like an angel to me william you are like 