CHAPTER XXXI.
After it was all over, they begged her to go back to Ashurst.
"You can't stay here," Lois entreated--she had come with Mr.Dale as soon as the news of John Ward's death reached Ashurst--"you can't live among these people, Helen." But Helen shook her head.

"They are John's people.

I cannot go yet." Lois thought with a shiver of the exhortations of the clergymen who had come to the funeral to officiate.

She wondered how Helen could stay where every one had heard her sin of unbelief publicly prayed for; yet, with her cousin's brave sad eyes upon her, she dared not give this as a reason why Helen should leave Lockhaven.
Mr.Dale did not urge her to return; he knew her too well.

He only said when he went away, holding her hands in his and looking at her, his gentle old face quivering with tears, "He is all yours now, my dear; death has given you what life could not.