11/19 "Maybe he hears me--I will go as far as I can with him down the valley of the shadow of death," And then he folded his trembling hands together. "Oh, David--David, would God I had died for thee, my son--my son!" "It was very sudden," wrote Dinah to Malcolm the next morning. "Dear David had seemed so much better that day; but Dr.Hewlitt had warned us of probable collapse and heart-failure." "He had only left us half an hour, and Mr.Carlyon was reading the Evening Psalms to him, when he saw a change in him and called to us." "I am sure David knew us when we went in, but he could not speak, and then unconsciousness came on. The end was so quiet that we hardly knew when he left us. We have telegraphed to Theo; there is much to be done. |