life the other an man with a broken arm both were taken with arms in their hands and after suffering various were placed against a blank wall to be shot the man pleaded earnestly with his not for his own life but for hers he urged her sex ner even the doubtful condition of her mind and offered to give an order for a large sum of money but in vain he soon saw that nothing could move the heart of the lieutenant who had had two brothers murdered by the time was pressing the lives ot the prisoners were limited to seconds they granted him leave at last to go to the woman s side and speak to her he said we are to die her husband s yes she replied with a and humanity you you are not afraid p no the tears came into his eyes i have long had but one wish he said will you not let it be gratified a priest is just below us let him say the words as she comprehended his meaning she shook her head priests have had their day she replied it is not for them to unite souls only great love or a great purpose can do that he took one of her hands in his a great love is more than i can ask of you he said speaking rapidly but a great purpose we surely have in common see the soldiers are raising their they only wait the word of command let us go out of the world husband and wife she had a momentary struggle and then she said we will and as his lips touched her forehead the spectators who numbered thousands heard the frightful crash of three hundred guns fired simultaneously the who buried the victims found two with their hands still clasped together and hey laid them side by side peace at last chapter at last through those long weeks when she could hear nothing from her friends shut up in paris suffered all the of suspense and fear her dearly beloved daughter was there her lover whom she had come to regard with the tenderest feelings and her late husband toward whom she could not bring herself to feel anything like now that he was in each day she the newspapers for accounts of the situation found little to comfort her the funds which had left for grew low and another experience with want seemed about to stare her in the face even might have in her hatred had she seen her rival in those unhappy days when her affairs were at the lowest ebb a letter came bearing the post mark of she was not familiar with the writing and she sat for a long time holding it in her hand hardly daring to break the seal what a flood of memories the word brought the scenes of her childhood her youth her marriage all came back to her in her children were born in she first saw harry across the hedge of her she had heard her husband express doubt that she had been true to him and there the love that had survived all his neglect died out of her breast forever who in could writ to her her husband friend the was a brief one but its contents were momentous the signature was that of lawyer he wrote to say that her aunt was dead and that her uncle wanted her to come and live with him miss had been in feeble health said the lawyer for some time and her was not by the neighbors he advised to accept her uncle s invitation and hoped she would come with the least possible delay her first impression was that she had best not with the suggestion but on reflection she decided to go it would be hard to face the people of who had always thought so highly of her and who were now without doubt prejudiced by the tongue of they had known her when she was a happy wife and mother they knew her now as a woman and is the fault a taint hangs to the person in the minds of the good back country folk of new england probably they had also talked over her relations with and drawn their own none too conclusions but her uncle was alone and wanted her and it was her duty to go met her at the a little more bent a little more dried up than of and escorted her to his lonely home she thought she would have known even if nobody had told her that her aunt had died for there was an atmosphere in the deserted rooms that only death can bring had a woman to do the one of those noiseless footed women that add to the stillness of the places where they walk little was impressed by everything that she saw peace at last and did not at all like the idea of taking off fc r things and considering herself at home tt she nor her mother ate much of the supper that w as prepared for them and both retired early the next morning told in slow language the story of his sister s death after she come back from he said she didn t seem to care any more for anything she used to sit all day in the there with hardly a word and her appetite fell away astonishing i wanted to call the doctor but she wouldn t hear to it some of the neighbors come in and offered to do anything they could for her but she said there wasn t nothing to be done and that she would be out in a few days you know that your aunt always had her own way and i couldn t do anything right against her will the morning she died and i hadn t the least 