You do look mortal tired." The Girl said good-bye and staggering a few steps sank on a log and sat staring at the sky.
"Oh he was suffering, and about me!" she gasped.

A chill began to shake her and feverish blood to race through her veins.

"He does and gives everything; I do and give nothing! Oh why didn't I stay at Uncle Henry's until it ended?
It wouldn't have been so bad as this.

What will I do?
Oh what will I do?
Oh mother, mother! if I'd only had the courage you did." She arose and staggered up the hill, passed the cabin and went to the oak.

There she sank shivering to earth, and laid her face among the mosses.