And I tell you, Arthur Ranger, till you change your heart, you're no son of mine." "Mother! Mother!" cried Arthur, rushing from the room.
Mrs.Ranger looked vacantly at the place where he had been, dropped into a chair and burst into a storm of tears.
"Call him back, mother," entreated Del.
"No! no!" sobbed Ellen Ranger.

"He spoke agin' my dead! I'll not forgive him till his heart changes." Adelaide knelt beside her mother and tried to put her arms around her.
But her mother shrank away.

"Don't touch me!" she cried; "leave me alone.

God forgive me for having bore children that trample on their father's grave.

I'll put you both out of the house--" and she started up and her voice rose to a shriek.