"Don't be alarmed about me, dear Edward, dear papa," she said in her low sweet tones.

"I don't think I am ill; and heavy as our loss is, dearest husband, how we must rejoice for her.

Let me go and perform the last office of love for her--our precious mother; I am better; I am able." "No, no, you are not; you must not," both answered in a breath.

"Aunt Dinah and Aunt Chloe will do it all tenderly and lovingly as if she had been of their own flesh and blood," added Mr.Travilla, in trembling tones..