Then I sat still for a long time." "Miss Cumberland, pardon my request, but will you tell us what was in that note ?" She lifted her patient eyes, and looked straight at her brother.

He did not meet her gaze; but the dull flush which lit up the dead-white of his cheek showed how he suffered under this ordeal.

At me she never glanced; this was the only mercy shown me that dreadful morning.

I grew to be thankful for it as she went on.
"I do not remember the words," she said, finally, as her eyes fell again to her lap.

"But I remember its meaning.