13/15 Can it be that she too is dead ?" "No, she is not dead," replied the rector. "I saw her two months since, and she was then living--well, beautiful, and happy. No, the little one is not dead." "Then tell me, for pity's sake, where she is!" cried the earl, in an agony of impatience. Two months since I was at Ashwood Cottage Margaret Dornham's worthless husband was in some great trouble. |