At first she rebelled against God, thinking that he was unjust to have taken away her child--she who had never done anything wrong, and whose conscience was so pure! But no! she ought to have taken her South.

Other doctors would have saved her.

She accused herself, prayed to be able to join her child, and cried in the midst of her dreams.

Of the latter, one more especially haunted her.

Her husband, dressed like a sailor, had come back from a long voyage, and with tears in his eyes told her that he had received the order to take Virginia away.