If he has offered both to the young girl--" "No, no!" Melissa put in.

"He will bring his gift.

Let us wait here a little while, and do you, too, pray to the manes of our mother.

Do it to please me." But her brother interrupted her eagerly: "I think of her wherever I may be; for those we truly love always live for us.

Not a day passes, nor if I come in sober, not a night, when I do not see her dear face, either waking or dreaming.