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The fever hasn't quite left her" said
Enoch. calmly. She will have forgot
ten by the morning."
"She will have remembered every
thing" cried the other What q fate
is mine, to have been cheated like this
by death-and b yyou! / thought it
was all done with-all ended; Ibegin
to understand now what Eye DONE.
What have you dohe?" asked
Enoch Flame. 50 -.
I'll wanted my dreams again so
much: I could not live without them"
faltered Yarwood. And woman
came in out of the darlness-and she
had money-and | had nothing. At
least, had no money" he. whined.
'But you had something the woman
crayed-eh?" asked the other. What
was it?"
Papers - valuable papers that
should show who my daughter was,
and should point the way to a great
fortune for her. 4 thought she was
dying-I did--indeed, did-and that
the papers were Of no value. This
woman came and offered me money
money to buy my dreams again--in ex-
change for the papers. IL let her
have them"
"And the child knew of this fortune
knew that it was hers?" asked the
old man.
Eve had talked about it---just before
she was ILL.,"
"And you sold it all-for something
that should fill your head with fancies
and palsy your limbs 2" said Flame.
bitterly. "And now she asks for that
which is hers-and it's gone. Who
was the woman?"
II don't know She was stranger
and she came in out Of the night
and went again-taking the papers.
live forgotten so many things; even
il she told me her name, 1 }shouldn't
remember what it was
''The child must be told" said the
old man. Eve must wait until she is
stronger and then she must be told.
Not a word now; it would endangeE
her life. Let her believe, that every
thing is right that the, papers are
there: she must be told presently.
David Yarwood pleaded in vain;
Enoch blame was firm in his deter
mination. Twice the wretched man
tried to get away, and twice the man
who had saved his daughters life
brought him sternly back And at last
the day came when Enoch Flame set
his back to the door of the house and
nodded sternly to .Yarwood that he
must tell his tale. -. 49, q y1syfss
our father has something to tell
you, my child" saidsthe old man. "You
will be brave, you will listen to. all he
has to say. You have been. brought
back to life and / believe mot in vain.
Hear what your father has to say" Y
Yarwood began his story haltingly
He. pleaded that he was a poor. lonely
creature; that he had been broken.
hearted at the thought d, losing his
child; that he had gone fol, consola-
ton to the drug that had served him
SO often before He told. of that night
when he had thought that she lay. dy-.
ing; told of the. coming of the woman
to the house; of his. temptation land
his fall.
All that was yours, Grace, is gone.
there isn't a scrap Of paper anywhere
which shall prove who you are; and
who would believe me-? was born
under an nnlucky star; your fortune
+ is gone.4and IL. wish i was gone,
too" l,:- Ne
n He broke down and wept some. very
sincere tears; for in this .saner mo-
ment he, too had had a vision Of some
better life in that far-off England he
had almost forgotten. For some; time
the girl lay quiet, saying nothing;
when at last she broke the silence in
the room her words, were calm enough
and there was no hint Of blame in
them.
You gave away all that was mine!
Ito strange little money, 2,
she said. 81 thought, when my eyes
first opened again on Gods blessed
sunligh that / had. come back to a
new life: but. the new life WASH for
me. All that I hoped, for all that I'd
dreamed abaut-7had been ibaEterea4
away. Don't think blame You; this
has only been the last Of many things
that / look back upon with different
eyes, father 81 But, ~ she raised her
self, with astonishing vigor, on the:
couch, and looked ;fxedly at the cripg-
ing man before her .'this Is not the.
end for me. Life held out q prize for;
me; you have snatuheds ID away.e But,
so truly % II is mine, 50 surely will
81 have 1T again ,:s .:;y ~
But what viii yon 40 q asked both
men at once. IS \. Il !