For ever, did I say?
No, not for ever--not so long as love exists--love that shall bring us together again in that far-off Sphere where--- Hush! what was that?
The sound of the organ?
I looked around me in startled wonderment.

There was no one seated at the instrument; it was shut close.

The lights on the altar and round the bier burnt steadily; the motionless figure of the priest before the tabernacle; the praying servants of the household--all was unchanged.

But certainly a flood of music rolled grandly on the ear--music that drowned for a moment the howling noise of the battering wind.

I rose softly, and touched one of the kneeling domestics on the shoulder.
"Did you hear the organ ?" I said.
The woman looked up at me with tearful, alarmed eyes.
"No, mademoiselle." I paused, listening.