whose indistinct utterance and closed mouth prevented Jenniker's catching at more than the sound of the words, and he had to guess at the sense.

"Nothing, they say. I have got a big hole in the side, and the blood's welling out of me like a waterspout.”

"I was in hopes you would have been spared. And would have borne back tidings of my death to Whittermead."

"It is decreed otherwise, it seems. By this time tomorrow, we shall both have passed into another world.” William cast his reproachful eyes towards him.

"I know what that means," cried Jenniker. "You would say that my tone of speech ill becomes such as we are. But it comes natural to me. I meant nothing wrong: nobody could at an hour like this. God is all-powerful to save. He forgives what we'd not forgive to one another. We have seen our share of ill in this life, Allair, knocked about as we have been : let us trust that, by God's mercy, which we greatly need, the next will prove a brighter and a better world for us.”

"Amen!" said William, as he clasped his hands together. "Amen, Amen!"

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