'This,' he said, 'is all we ever knew of you.

It should be yours.

Good-bye.' "I strove to speak, but he no longer heard me, and asked the guard impatiently why the Chaplain tarried.

And so I crept forth into the dark of dawn, more dead than living.

And presently the rising sun blinded my tear-drowned eyes, where I was kneeling in a field under a tall tree....