"You cannot help me, dearest, and it would hurt you, and you must not come." "Then I will stay here," said Inez sorrowfully.

"I shall be nearer to him," she added under her breath.
"Stay here--yes.

I will come back to you, and then--then we will go in together, and say a prayer--his soul can hear us still--we will go and say good-by to him--together." Her voice was almost firm, and Inez could not see the agony in her white face.

Then Dolores clasped her in her arms and kissed her forehead and her blind eyes very lovingly, and pressed her head to her own shoulders and patted it and smoothed the girl's dark hair.
"I will come back," she said, "and, Inez--you know the truth, my darling.

Whatever evil they may say of me after to-night, remember that I have said it of myself for our father's sake, and that it is not true." "No one will believe it," answered Inez.