I can't forgive." 'Lina was very much excited--so much indeed, that Alice could not talk with her then; and for days this was the burden of her remarks.

She could not forgive Densie and Adah, and until she did, there was no use for her or any one else to pray.

But the prayers she could not say for herself were said for her by others, while Alice omitted no proper occasion for talking with her personally on the subject she felt to be all-important.

Nor were these efforts without their effect; the bitter tone when speaking of Densie ceased at last, and Alice was one day surprised at 'Lina's asking to see her, together with Mrs.Worthington.
Timidly, Densie approached the bed from which she had once been so angrily dismissed.

But there was nothing to fear now from the white, wasted girl, whose large eyes fastened themselves a moment on the wrinkled face; then with a shudder, closed tightly, while the lip quivered with a grieved, suffering expression.