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 Thus the days came aad went, and every evening when the sun was setting and his last rays were gliding the ball on the top of the high steeple, they sat again in the window and watched the great bell as it struck the hour, and never took their eyes from it until 1t was black with the deepening shadows, and then their arms were again entwined, and they slept once more. 9c4
 One evening, the nurse came to them at their accustomed place, and found . strange flush on the cheek of the girl, and, tearing some contagion, put one h one bed and the other in another, but she boy sighed in his sleep and reached out his chubby arms for his sister, and not 6nding her, sought her where she lay % ill, and when the nurse came agaiu, they were in their own bed locked h eAch others arms as was their won't. The days came and went, and the girl grew % weak that she conld no lonRer visit tho window with her brother bat as evening hs sat in their old place and told her what he saw--how the sun made the great ball shine like gold, how the great bell quivered as the hour was being tstruck-how the shadows were climbing z higher and hiding the bell, and at last, how he could no longer see 1t, and thea he climbed upon the bed beside her, and fell asleep in her arms, while she pressed his cheeks with her wasted hands and coughed and sigaed asa oasessed. her brother through all the wearying night.
 One day the boy sat alone in the win. dow. The sexton was tolling the bell again, and his sister lay cold and unrc- sponsive to his words in little, white coffin. The tears fell thick and fast when the sound had ceased. for the girl was very young, and it took but few strokes 1 of the old bell to tell of her years. The next day he sat alone In the window and heard the bell folled and the grand organ playing a funeral march again, as his sisters coffin was carried down the aisle, and after that the tone of the bell alwsys1 seemed strangely sad to him, and he wept bitterly in his place in the wiadow, whenever he heard it. At night he watched the shadows deepen in the bel fry, and weeping fell asleep, hugging the easement and when his rsrse put him to bed, his arms were thrown around his pillow and he sighed and clasped 1t tighter as the night wore on.
 One evening when his nurse found him in the window asleep, she saw he was iil, and when she put him in his bed, his mind wandered, and he seemed to think he was again sitting in the window telling his sister of the giided ball, the sh.dcw. and the belt. His voice was very low and tender, and his words were % fall of the pathos of childish love, that all about his bedside wept. He grew worse day 1 by day, and one night, he again dreamed of his sister and the bell and talked of them again: ss7 as la Al sa
 "l ses the old man climbing up te the bell" he said. The sun is on the ball l and the shadows are falling In the beifry. Sister, he is going to toll the belf, ssDd-- nobody will se ct the window to see him. Listeni7 The clock struck the hour = his very age, and he locked his ar as around his pillow, and smiling fell asleep. | He never more awos<e on earth, and the next day, the bell was toilsd asd the grand organ played a funeral march, but no childish form with its tears falling fast saw and listened from the window, and at evening, the sun gilded the bah