The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-15
"Tell me what I am to do. then"

Tell me what am TO do, then"
Mono, indeed. If you cared for her,
could teach you, nothing else; nobody else
can"
George drew away from her in silence.
II sometimes Think Diana went on,
that you care for her more than YOU
know. believe. George, that you love her
still. Do let your feeling have its true
vent; forget the mistakes of the past, the
sins, the errors-even the punishment. Re-
member only that she Is your wife, that
she loves you, and that you-you loved her
once.
~ love her STILL" said George, abruptly.
Then he sat down by the table and rested
his head upon his folded arms. He could say
no more.
Diana was silenced, but she laid her hand
softly upon bis shoulder-almost with a
caress. Then she thought Of the day
when she had once placed IL there before,
and he had drawn himself away With half
impatient gesture, as if it irked him TO DO
touched by her. He did not move now,
but she took her hand away as that old
memory hoated back to her. Then she set
herself to comfort him.
Listen, George" she said, gently. "Your
wife is not hopelessly i'll; you may yet
have time to show her what you feel. 1t
will comfort her mex pressiuly to know that
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and try to live for the future"
"Do you think that there is any hopea"
he said, lifting his haggard face from his
arms.
"Hope9 Yes, indeed; the doctor"
81 did not mean hope of her bodily re-
coeery; meant hope of any happiness for
us, after all that we have suffered. She
has suffered as you say; but tool have
Also
az know, I know. Yes. George, in spite
of all that sufferiugs / think there Is hope
for you still. But we shall see moro clearly
by and by. Now do try to get some sleep.
you may be wanted tomorrow, SO you had
better sleep tonight"
He rose, slowly and YEARLY, and then for
the first time noticed that she had not re-
moved her cloak.
You are not going out againP'
Yes, l am going TO spend the night at
the orphanage. do not want Alice Drew
to be tired out, and it is better that should
be there than stranger. / shall see you in
the morning."
II can't thank YOU"
Don't thank me. want no thanks.
want to help you to set right what has gone
wrong-that is all.
She gave him her han d, and, as he clasped
it, he said:
"God bless you, Dianal You have given
Then they parted; he, to go to his room,
and she to retrace her steps 10 the orphan
age, where Jess lay tossing in the heat and
restlessness of fever, babbling words Of
which she was unconscious, and which
Diana thought it we'll that none but her.
self should hear.
For. in those hours of fever, Jess poured
forth her story ia broken words and SEN
fences that we're easy to be pieced together
by one who held the cew; and as Diana
listened, she thought that she discovered a
new meaning in her confession, a new sig
nificancs in her self-accusation. And when
the early summer dawn looked In at the
latsiced window, it beheld Lady Hexham
on her knees beside poor Jess bed, weeping
and kissing the sufferers hot thin hand as
if in a transport of something less like sor.
row than like joy. For what had puzzled
her in jess story was now made clear.
(TO BE CoNTINUED.)