You will know from whom it comes.' She knew, and the message aided her.

The shook of what she had just heard was not, in its immediate effect, as severe as others had feared it would be.

Perhaps Emily's own sojourn at the gates of death lessened the distance between her and him who had passed them; perhaps the vast misery which lay behind her, the darkness threatening in the future, brought first to her mind death's attribute of deliverance.

This, in the hours that followed, she strove to dwell upon nothing could touch her father now, he was safe from trouble.

But, as the current in her veins grew warmer, as life held her with a stronger hand and made her once more participant in his fears and desires, that apparition of the motionless veiled form haunted her with access of horror.