"He ain't going to see anybody this last night, ma'am." "Mr.Markham"-- she came over and laid her velvet paw on his arm, and magnetized him with her big black eyes--"think better of it.

It is his last night.

His mother lies on the point of death.

I come here with a last sacred message from a dying mother to a dying son.

You have an aged mother yourself, Mr.Markham.